Areas of Expertise
Modernism, Theater, World Literature, Comparative Literature, Cultural History
Representative Publications
“Yeats’s Photographs and the World Theatre of Images,” Theatre Survey 56.1, 2024: 14–36.
Tales of an Eastern Port: The Singapore Novellas of Joseph Conrad, NUS Press, 2023 (as editor).
“The Stage Properties of Willa Cather’s Theatre-Fiction,” The Routledge Companion to Theatre-Fiction (Routledge, 2023), 80–88.
Modernist Circumnavigations: Around the World in Jules Verne’s Wake, Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
“World Literature Comes Full Circle, 1522–2022,” Public Books (2022) / Republished in Sydney Review of Books (2023)
“Unremaking the War: Theatrical Historiography in Alfian Sa’at’s Tiger of Malaya,” Theatres of War (Bloomsbury/Methuen Drama, 2021), 71–78.
“On World Literature’s Frontier: Jules Verne and the Portable Printing Press,” Nineteenth-Century Contexts 43.1, 2021: 35–54.
“Modernism on the World Stage” (with Rebecca Kastleman and Claire Warden) Modernism/modernity Print Plus 4.3, 2019.
“Jean Cocteau’s Around-the-World Performance,” Modernism/modernity 25.4, 2018: 633–654.
“Performance in the Wartime Archive: Michio Ito at the Alien Enemy Hearing Board,” American Studies 55.4, 2017: 67–89.
“Hiroshi Sugimoto and the photography of theatre,” Performance Research 20.2, 2015: 104–113.
Education
BA, Amherst College
PhD, University of Minnesota