Ph.D., Auburn University
M.A., Washington University (St. Louis) 
B.A., University of Akron 
At St. Thomas since 2001

Expertise/Specialties

Drama
Theatre and Social Change/Community-based Performance
Romanticism
18th- & 19th-Century British Literature and Theatre culture
Writing and Civic Education 

Awards & Honors

Fulbright Scholar, Greece, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Spring 2010
Maxi Grant, University of St. Thomas, 2008
Summer Stipend, National Endowment for the Humanities, 2007

Selected Publications

Book:

Composing a Civic Life: A Rhetoric and Readings for Inquiry and Action (with Michael Berndt), Longman, 2003; second edition 2006.

Articles and Reviews:

"Encountering Ali Pasha on the London Stage: No Friend to Freedom?" Romanticism: The Journal of Romantic Culture and Criticism, 16 (forthcoming 2010).

“‘The Great Drama of the Revival of Liberty’: Philhellenic Drama of the 1820s,” in Liberty, Emancipation, Freedom: Romantic Theatre and Drama in Britain (1789-1832), ed. Gioia Angeletti. Monte Università Parma (forthcoming January 2010).

“Lifting the Painted Veil: Romantic Drama as Holy Theatre,” in "Teaching Romantic Drama" special issue of Romantic Circles' Pedagogy Commons, ed. Thomas C. Cronchunis (forthcoming).

Review of Endgame, by Samuel Beckett. Ten Thousand Things Theater Company, Minneapolis.  The Beckett Circle, 32.2 (Fall 2009).

Review of Tony Howard's Women as Hamlet: Performance and Interpretation in Theatre, Film, and Fiction (Cambridge UP, 2007). Comparative Drama 41.4 (Winter 2007-8): 531-533.

"Actresses and the Making of the Modern Hamlet." Text & Presentation, 2007: 137-148.

"Nicholas Rowe's The Tragedy of Jane Shore Gives Actresses a Hamlet of Their Own." Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre Research, 13.2 (Winter 1998): 43-59.

"Romantic Drama." Annual review essay for The Year's Work in English Studies, v. 77-86 (1996-2006).

Selected Presentations

"Roundtable: Performing Eighteenth-Century Comedy." Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Auburn University, February 14-16, 2008.

"'The Great Drama of the Revival of Liberty': Philhellenic Drama of the 1820s." British Association for Romantic Studies/North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, University of Bristol, July 26-29, 2007.

"Actresses and the Making of the Modern Hamlet." Comparative Drama conference, Loyola Marymount University, March 28-31, 2007.

"'They Have Marked Me': The Holy Theatre of Naomi Wallace's One Flea Spare." Comparative Drama Conference, Loyola Marymount University, March 30-April 1, 2006.

"Negative Staging: The Grand Failure of Hamlet." Comparative Drama Conference, Ohio State University, April 2004.

"Discourses on Freedom Staged by Philhellenic Drama." Comparative Drama Conference, Ohio State University, April 24-26, 2003.

"Rehearsing Freedom: Byron, Shelley, and Nikolaos Piccolos's The Death of Demosthenes." Comparative Drama Conference, Ohio State University, April 26-28, 2001.

"Physicalizing Argument: Experiencing the Power of Words." Pedagogy and Theatre of the Oppressed International Conference, June 15-18, 2000.

"Using Learning Circles for Service Learning Partnerships." Highlander Education and Research Center, May 26-28, 2000.

"From Civic Inquiry to Social Action: Teaching Composition in the Framework of Citizenship and Public Ethics" (with Michael Berndt and Tim Gustafson). Minnesota Council of Teachers of English, April 28-29, 2000.

"Acting in Romantic Drama." Symposium: Romantic Drama in Place: Geography, Scene, Milieu, University of Texas, April 10-12, 1998.

"Serious Travesty: The Hamlets of Sarah Siddons and Jane Powell." Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, March 5-7, 1998.

"Gothic Terror and Catharsis: Coleridge's Remorse and the Presentation of Consciousness." American Conference on Romanticism, October 3-7, 1996.

"The Theories and Politics of Henry Fielding's Dramatic Experiments with Genre/Generic Experiments with Drama." South Central American Society for
Eighteenth-Century Studies, February 1996.

Professional Activities

Panel member, post-show discussion of Vinegar Tom, Frank Theatre, September 2008.
Dramaturg, Enchanted April, Park Square Theatre (dir: Mary Finnerty) September 2004.
Member, Education Advisory Board, Park Square Theatre, St. Paul (2002-present).

Membership in Professional Organizations

North American Society for the Study of Romanticism
Modern Greek Studies Association
Association for Theatre in Higher Education
Modern Language Association