Curriculum vitae

CV Highlights

PhD Candidate · Writing Instructor · Arts Reviewer

Education

  • PhD, Writing and Rhetoric (in progress)
    University of Utah
  • MA, English Literature
    Graduate Certificate, Rhetoric & Writing Studies
    Weber State University
  • BA, English and Music
    Brigham Young University–Hawaiʻi

Teaching

  • Writing Instructor, University of Utah
  • Adjunct Faculty, Salt Lake Community College
  • Previously: Weber State University and BYU–Hawaiʻi
  • Courses in composition, research writing, technical writing, popular US literature, and Borderlands rhetoric

Research

Performance as archive; Indigenous and decolonial rhetorics; multimodal composition; community-engaged humanities; Shakespeare adaptation.

Writing & Editorial

  • Founding Editor, The Rhetorical Review
  • 100+ published reviews of theatre, dance, and performance, including 10 world premieres
  • Guest Co-Editor, Writers: Craft & Context special issue (forthcoming)

Leadership & Mentoring

  • Graduate Peer Mentor, Writing & Rhetoric Studies Graduate Mentorship Program
  • Graduate Representative, Access, Belonging, and Community Task Force
  • Workshop Facilitator, “We Live Amid and As Archives” series
  • Designed and led a graduate Grant Writing & Proposal Development workshop

Service

  • Graduate Student Advisory Committee (GSAC) Representative, Faculty Tenure & Promotion Review Committees
  • Planning committee and session chair, Writing Across Borders Conference
  • Talkback facilitator on Indigenous performance, Hinckley Institute of Politics
  • New-play reader, Utah Shakespeare Festival Words Cubed program

Selected Publications

  • Review of Utah Shakespeare Festival’s The Tempest. Shakespeare Bulletin, Johns Hopkins University Press. Read
  • “Hamlet in Cinema: Oedipus Lives On.” Quidditas, vol. 44. Read

Conference presentations, awards, and references are included in my full CV, available on request through the contact form or LinkedIn.