I am a former tenured professor with over 20 years of experience in academic writing, publishing, and editing, and 10 years of experience mentoring graduate students and new faculty.
In 2024, I resigned from Bowling Green State University, where I was faculty in the Department of Theatre and Film, to relocate to my home state of Minnesota and start a small business that serves arts academics.
Before I began my academic career, I worked for non-profit theatre organizations in Minneapolis, performed in the taiko group Mu Daiko, and worked as a freelance stage manager.
Now living in northern Minnesota, I am returning to writing poetry, spending time with my extended family and friends, and enjoying the great Northwoods with my Border Terrier, Juniper.
20 years of teaching and advising in university setting
13 years as Theatre History and Performance Studies faculty at three large public universities
4 years as Graduate Coordinator for MA/PhD program in Theater
3 years in leadership roles for Dance Studies Association and Mid-America Theatre Conference
2 years as Book Review Editor for Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism
1 well-received interdisciplinary book, Drumming Asian America: Taiko, Performance, and Cultural Politics (Oxford, 2018)
Countless committees
And a recent pivot from academia to entrepreneurship
By the numbers
Selected Writing
PhD, University of Texas at Austin
MA, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
BA, Augsburg College