Service

Outreach

Faculty Liaison/Literary Manager: Wharton Center for Performing Arts Young Playwrights Festival, 2012-present. (https://www.whartoncenter.com/education-engagement/young-playwrights-festival)

  • Manage a committee of 6-8 student readers to evaluate 50-120 scripts submitted by Mid-Michigan high school students (December-January).
  • Collaborate with Bert Goldstein, Wharton Center Director of Arts and Creativity, to select twelve semifinalist playwrights (January).
  • Serve as mentor for twelve semifinalists to make revisions for second round of evaluations. Collaborate in selection of six finalists for production (January-February).
  • Attend public performance, awards ceremony, and post-show discussion as Department of Theatre representative (May).

Peer Review for Scholarly Journals

Eighteenth-Century Fiction, The Mercurian, Palgrave Communication, Theatre Topics, Theatre History Studies

University Service

University Committee on Faculty Tenure (Elected representative for the College of Arts and Letters ), 2017-2019.  https://ucft.msu.edu/

Consortium for Critical Diversity in a Digital Age Research (CEDAR) Advisory Board, 2018. http://www.cal.msu.edu/criticaldiversity/cedar

College of Arts and Letters, College Inclusive Practices Committee (CIPC), Department of Theatre representative, 2016-2018.

Humanities and Arts Research Program (HARP) Grant Selection Committee, Department of Theatre/College of Arts and Letters representative, 2016-2018. https://vprgs.msu.edu/harp

College of Arts and Letters Scholarship Award Committee, 2017 and College of Arts and Letters, Louis B. Sudler Prize in the Arts Committee, 2016-2017. http://www.cal.msu.edu/currentstudents/awards-scholarships