As a scholar, I have been blessed with challenging work, supportive advisors and lot of opportunities to explore my interests. The picture to the right was taken the day I passed my candidacy exams, February 2, 2007

Education: Doctorate of Philosophy in Theatre History, Literature, and Criticism The Ohio State University (projected 2008)         Dissertation:              "Building American Puppetry on the Jim Henson Foundation" Master of Arts in Theatre History, Literature, and Criticism The Ohio State University 2005        Thesis:             "Infecting the Inanimate: Puppet Theatre Responds to AIDS" Bachelor of Arts in Cinema and Theatre Denison Univeristy 2000       Senior Thesis Production:              To Worship the Sun: A Play with Puppets

Conferences Association for Theatre in Higher Education           New Orleans, 2007   "In Their Own Words: Puppeteers Speak for Themselves" Association for Theatre in Higher Education           Chicago, 2006   "Separating from the Flock: Andrew Kim's Vertigo of Sheep" Trajectories of Memory: Intergenerational Representations of the Holocaust           in History and the Arts                                       Bowling Green, 2006    "Watering Skupa's 'Daisies':  Tinka's New Dress" Midwest Slavic Studies Conference                         Columbus, 2006   "Modernist Tendencies in Karel Capek's Drama"

Articles "The Shoebox World of Robert Anton" Puppetry International Issue 21 (Spring and Summer 2007) pages 24-26 "Identity" Puppetry Journal Volume 56, Issue 1 (Fall 2004) pages 28-29 "Starlight Matinee-Family Day of Puppetry" Puppetry Journal Volume 55, Issue 2 (Winter 2003) page 19 "From Puppet Cafes to Butterflies" Puppetry Journal Volume 53, Issue 4 (Summer 2002) pages 12-13 written with Martha Rutkowski