Public Lectures and Presentations

• “The Dream of a Shared Curriculum” Phi Beta Kappa Magee Address, University of Puget Sound, 2019
• “Presence in Performance” a presentation given during the workshop organized by Professor Susan Owen oral communication across the curriculum, one of the inaugural activities of Puget Sound’s Center for Effective Communication and Advocacy, 2019
• “Words and Images” a talk for University of Washington Coffee and Concepts Colloquium for the Interdisciplinary Performance Studies Graduate Program, 2019
• “Poetic Images and Dramatic Spaces: Contemporary Playwriting and Twenty-first Century Poetics in Churchill, Iizuka, and Ruhl” a talk for the interdisciplinary PhD program in performance studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2018
• “Arts, Activism, and Social Movements” SOAN 240: Social Movements taught by Professor Jason Struna, University of Puget Sound, 2018
• “Motherhood and Theatre: Wertenbaker and Kushner with a coda on Boudica at the Globe” Newcastle University, Faculty Seminar, 2017
• “Staging New Writing and the Poetics of Space: A Dramaturgy of Les Waters and Annie Smart’s Directing and Design” Daedalus Faculty Lecture, University of Puget Sound, 2016
• Fat Pig Respondent at Tacoma Little Theatre as part of the Off the Shelf reading series, 2016
• Workshops on Collaborations Around New Writing, Script Analysis: Dramaturgy for Everyone, and Approaching Non-English Language Classics, Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival (KC/ACTF) Dramaturgy Respondent and Workshops; Ellensburg, WA, 2015
• Master Classes on Acting While Singing and Playing Characters for Dr. Dawn Padula’s Vocal Performance Class in the School of Music, University of Puget Sound, 2013-2015
• “Planning Ahead Versus Adapting on the Fly” Panelist, Wednesdays at Four Sessions on Teaching and Learning at the Center for Writing, Teaching, and Learning, University of Puget Sound, 2013
• “Two Rooms and Electricity: Staging In the Next Room, or, the Vibrator Play” a presentation for Ideas at Work and Play, Puget Sound First Year Orientation Series on Faculty Scholarship, 2013
• “Using ARTSTOR for Material Culture in Pedagogy” a presentation with librarian Lori Ricigliano at
  Puget Sound’s Center For Writing, Learning and Teaching (CWLT) May Faculty Workshop, 2013
• “Gertrude Stein’s Landscapes,” for Three SWANS: Short Plays by Gertrude Stein, a performance
  event developed by Haley Hilmes and performed at Toy Boat Theatre in Tacoma, Washington, 2011
• “ ‘Brechtian’ Acting Demonstration and Discussion” Graduate Seminar in German Theatre (GER
  625) taught by Professor Dorothee Ostermeir, University of Oregon, 2011
• “Actresses Past and Present, and the History of Women’s Theatre Companies” Post-show
  Discussion Panelist for Playhouse Creatures by April DeAngelis, directed by Brian Cook, UO Hope
  Theatre, 2011
• “Ecology of the Book” Panel and Play Discussion for Earth Matters on Stage Festival and
  Conference, University of Oregon. Theresa May, EMOS Artistic Director. Led with Barbara Altmann, Director of the Oregon Humanities Center, May 2009
• “Sarah Kane’s Psychosis 4.48” Visual Concepts Seminar taught by Professor Marcia McDonald,
  Illinois Wesleyan University, 2006
• “Research and Production for Bold Stroke for a Wife: Student Dramaturgy at IWU” Illinois
  Wesleyan University Board of Trustees Dinner, 2005
• “Student Research at a Liberal Arts University” John Wesley Powell Student Research Conference Luncheon, Illinois Wesleyan University, 2005
• “Self-Presentation as Performance” Senior Seminar in Business taught by Professor Fred Hoyt, Illinois Wesleyan University, 2003-2005
• “What is Dramaturgy?” Visual Concepts Seminar taught by Professor Marcia McDonald, Illinois Wesleyan University, 2003
• “Caryl Churchill and David Hare” Modern British Drama in Performance taught by Professor Jeff
  Ginsburg, Columbia College, Chicago, 2002
• “British Alternative Theatre in the 1970s” Graduate Seminar on Performance in the 1970s taught
  by Professor Sally Banes, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2001
• “Maria Irene Fornes’s Fefu and Her Friends” Full Lecture Section of Introduction to Theatre and
  Drama taught by Professor Barbara Clayton, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1999
• “Timberlake Wertenbaker’s Love of the Nightingale” Undergraduate Seminar in Feminist Theatre
  taught by Professor Michael Vanden Heuvel, Wisconsin-Madison, 1998