Teaching
Over several years of teaching in four countries, I have taught in theatre departments and related humanities units, offering courses in world theatre theory and history, dramatic adaptation and literature, dramaturgy, performance activism, and gender and storytelling across multiple contexts and media. My teaching spans in-person, online, and blended formats and includes undergraduate courses, graduate seminars, General Education electives, directed readings, and individualized mentorship, earning consistently outstanding student evaluations. I design courses that bridge scholarship and creative practice—using dramaturgy portfolios, performance analyses, digital curation, and community-engaged projects—within an intersectional, accessible pedagogy grounded in cross-cultural thinking and ethics of care. In the classroom, I often assume the role of a playful, improvisational instructor, like traditional storytellers, with rigorous preparation, modeling curiosity while scaffolding close analysis. At UMD, I served on multiple PhD dissertation committees across theatre and interdisciplinary humanities; mentored MA and undergraduate research projects; designed a graduate seminar; and supported graduate students in developing skills in teaching, grant writing, professionalization, and transnational archival research and knowledge exchange. Lastly, Pedagogical research is central to my practice; I regularly publish and present on teaching theatre and performance.
