Institute for Advanced Critical and Cultural Studies, Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth Program

Presenting material from an in-progress dissertation chapter in a paper entitled "There Is No Future, There Is No Past: Cripping Chronicity and the Death Drive in the AIDS Musical." 

Presenting my paper "Cut them apart": Conjoinment, Conservation, and Aesthetics in Side Show' the session, 'Pre-Existing Conditions: Transhistorical Approaches to Disability Conservation'. 

Presenting "And the beauty is…": Cripping Aesthetics for Situated Knowledge in The Light in the Piazza n the seminar "Disability Aesthetics: New Directions."

Presenting, "'Today for you, tomorrow for me': Queer Contagion and Crip Chronicity in the AIDS Musical," which investigates chronicity and crip time in Jonathan Larson's Rent; Moderating a Spotlight on GWU Undergraduate Research in Disability Studies panel comprised of students from my Fall 2017 Disability Studies course.

DC Theatre seminar for visiting undergraduates from Centre College and Butler University, organized around the Women's Voices Theater Festival. Students will attend  performances from the regional premiere runs of two  plays in the festival: Danai Gurira's Familiar, at Woolly Mammoth, and Sarah DeLappe's The Wolves, being produced by Studio Theatre. 

Presenting "'Unlimited (I'm Limited)': Impairment, Disability, and Hyper-Capacity in Wicked" in the working session “I’m the Witch, You’re the World:The Stage Witch as a Sign of the Shifting Paradigms of Embodiment.”