Teaching

Research & Teaching Expertise

Performance Art History & Theory

Land Art

Feminist Performance Art & Queer Theory

Site-Specificity

Disappearance/Visuality

Cultural Theory

Contemporary Art & Aesthetics

Embodied Pedagogies

Memory, Archives, & Public Commemoration

Political Theatre

I recently defended my PhD; watch a short visual interpretation of this research here - Attuning to Sites of Violence: Performing Spectral Relationality Across North America

Teaching & Mentorship Experience

Present - Course Director, Critical Theory & Performance Studies

Dance Arts Institute, (Formerly The School of Toronto Dance Theatre), Toronto

Aug 2023-Feb 2024 - Integrated Arts Education Assistant (Interim)

Hart House, University of Toronto

2021/22 - Educator in Residence

Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto

In this role I supported community engagement and designed interpretive and educational programming (I designed a program called The Attunement Sessions) for a year-long curatorial series presented as an ongoing outdoor exhibition on University of Toronto’s Mississauga campus. Below are six interpretive videos I created during my time at Blackwood Gallery (cinematography by Vuk Dragojevic).

Winter 2022 - Invited Lecturer

FAH310H5F – Curating Matters: Contexts and Issues in Contemporary Curatorial Practice (Professor Ellyn Walker), University of Toronto UTM

Lecture - Attuning and the Curatorial: Attunement Sessions

2020 - 2022 - Teaching Assistant

THEA 1900 - Sex, Drugs, and Theatre (Professor Moynan King), Theatre and Performance Studies Department, York University, Toronto, ON.

An introduction to theatre and performance practices that demonstrate a variety of relationships to the topics of sex, sexuality, gender, drugs, addiction, alcohol and the ‘high’ of performance. In this course we examined the cultural impact of sex and drugs in live performance historically and in the present.

2021-2022 - Teaching Assistant

Film 1702 - Introduction to Film Studies (Professor Gillian Helfield), Cinema and Media Studies, York University, Toronto, ON.

Winter 2016 - Invited Lecturer

FILM 338 - Contemporary Issues in Cultural Studies (Professor Keren Zaiontz), Queen’s University Department of Film and Media 

Lecture - The Pedagogical Pursuit in Contemporary Art and Performance Practice 

Fall 2016 – Teaching Assistant

ARTH 870 – Studies in Canadian Art History - Performance Art (Professor Clive Robertson), Department of Art History, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON.   

Provide students with a historical, theoretical and experiential understanding of the current uses and relevance of performance within the visual and media arts. Through lectures, workshops, performance attendances we paid attention to performance methods and approaches developed from the mid-1950s to the present. Forms of performance art studied included aspects of experimental musics, fluxevents, peopled environments and installations, body art, process and conceptual art, spoken word, and art made as a practice of relational aesthetics. 

Winter 2016 – Teaching Assistant

GNDS 120 – Women, Gender and Difference (Professor Scott L. Morgensen), Department of Gender Studies, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON.

Course Description: This course explored women, gender, and difference from feminist and anti-racist perspectives. It identified the ways in which women’s activism, politics, and experiences intersect with other gendered identifications such as race, location, class, (dis)ability, and sexuality. We introduced feminism, the body, colonialism, gender performance, and strategies of resistance.

Fall 2015 – Teaching Assistant

DEVS 350 – Globalization, Gender and Development (Professor Reena Kukreja), Department of Global Development Studies, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON.

Course Description: Designed for those interested in undertaking a critical analysis of the gendered impact of the globalization process and development policies with a focus on women in the Global South.

Summer 2015 - Learning Assistant 

Contemporary Art Gallery (CAG), Vancouver B.C. 

Worked closely with CAG Curator assisting in the day to day administration and facilitation of CAG public and learning programs (talks, workshops, community events, performances, etc.) and helped facilitate the Burrard Marina Field House Studio Program. In this role I lead the administration and development of two summer youth programs, Exchange! and Summer Youth Intensive, and supported Field House artist residents: Maddie Leach, Walter Scott, Keg de Souza, Sameer Farooq and Marie Lorenz towards the development of Vancouver-based public projects. 

Fall/Winter 2014-2015 – Teaching Assistant

FILM 110 - Film, Culture and Communication (Professors Dorit Naaman & Clarke Mackey), Film and Media Department, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON.

Introduction to analysis of film, television, new media and other related forms of contemporary culture. Includes classical and contemporary Hollywood cinema, Canadian film and television, alternatives in international cinema, as well as recent developments on the internet, in gaming, and in social media.