College of Fine Arts Research Profiles

As a director, I look for challenging projects, primarily from the classical, modern and postmodern European theatre. I have directed plays by Euripides, Dürrenmatt, Beckett, Stoppard, and others. I look for ways to integrate movement, dance, and new media into my productions. As a scholar, I have been concentrating on the intersection between theatre and early film on the one hand, and on digital media and performance on the other. I also write regular performance reviews for journals and am a book reviewer for Choice.

“Posthumanism and Digital Culture,” Mapping Intermediality, ed. Sarah Bay-Cheng, Andy Lavender, Robin Nelson. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2010."Homo Homini Lupus: Theatertreffen 2010," Communications 39 (2010). “Beyond Performance Studies: Digital Performance and the Posthuman,” Culture, Language & Representation 6 (2008): 47-65.
“The Actor as Intermedialist: Remediation, Appropriation, Adaptation,” Intermediality in Theatre and Performance, ed. Freda Chapple and Chiel Kattenbelt. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2006. 43-55.
“‘The Story and the Screen’: Alexander Black’s Picture Plays and the Pre-History of Cinema,” Princeton University Library Chronicle 65.3 (2004): 452-478.
Staging the Savage God: The Grotesque in Performance. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2004. 304 pp.

Faculty Enhancement Opportunity Grant, 2009, University of Florida.
Center for World Arts Fellowship, 2007, 2009, University of Florida.
Center for European Studies Travel Grant, 2009, University of Florida.
Center for European Studies Course Development Grant, 2007, University of Florida.
Princeton University Friends of the Library Research Grant, 2003, Princeton University.

International Educator of the Year, College of Fine Arts, UF, 2010. University of Florida Research Foundation Professorship, 2006-2008.
Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival Certificate of Merit for Directing, 2007.