From January 11-January 14, 2025, Princeton University Concerts presented Mahler Chamber Orchestra’s “Future Presence,” a virtual reality experience featuring Felix Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. PUC commissioned me and other Princeton faculty to write about music in the source text, Shakespeare’s play.

You can read the program notes here.

You can read a write-up of “Future Presence” here.

On February 22, 2024, I discussed my Public Books essay “Tickets Are for Remembering” on National Public Radio’s Connecticut Member Station. The segment “Invisible and essential, scanning through the history and impact of barcodes,” aired on the station’s Colin McEnroe show. You can stream the segment in podcast form, published August 21, 2024, here.

I also discussed the essay with Mark Brodie on National Public Radio’s Phoenix Member Station. The segment “Ticket stubs are becoming obsolete. What’s lost when they’re gone?” was published July 11, 2024 and can be streamed here.

With the support of a Princeton Humanities Council “Magic Grant,” I organized a 9-day trip to London, Oxford, and Stratford-upon-Avon for students in my fall 2023 seminar “The Purpose of Playing: Theater in Early Modern London.” Students visited excavated, extant, and reconstructed performance sites from the period; they also attended shows and participated in an acting workshop at Shakespeare’s Globe.

You can read a write-up of the trip here.

Rob Brown and I co-curated this exhibition for the Morton W. Bloomfield Conference in honor of James Simpson, with the support of Peter X. Accardo, Mitch Nakaue and other Houghton staff. Reflecting Simpson’s work to challenge “medieval” and “early modern” periodization, objects on display included an alleged fragment of printer William Caxton’s house.

You can read more about the conference proceedings here.

You can read my write-up in Harvard Library Bulletin here.

The Harvard Horizons Symposium is an annual event during which PhD candidates present their research for a broader audience in bite-size talks. Though the 2020 Symposium was delayed and ultimately moved online due to COVID-19, the digital platform provided new and expansive ways in which to share my work on female revenge in early modern drama and contemporary film with the public.

You can read a press release about the 2020 cohort of Harvard Horizons Scholars here.

You can watch my talk on YouTube here.

Before it was acquired by 2U in 2021, edX offered free, open online courses to the public, expanding access to the resources of Harvard and MIT. The “Shakespeare’s Outsiders” xSeries includes lectures by Professor Stephen Greenblatt on Shakespeare’s life, Hamlet, The Merchant of Venice, and Othello; conversations with scholars, artists, and teachers (including me, discussing feminist adaptations of Othello, as pictured here); and curriculum designed by Maria Devlin, Misha Teramura, and myself. The project was directed by Zachary Davis and Erica Lange.

You can see the current iteration of the courses here.