Public Scholarship
sex, drugs, and theatre roles
Why we need to teach ethics to drama students.
Times Higher Education, 26 January 2018
opera in a post-weinstein world
How can we justify raising our daughters to love an art form wrung from women's suffering?
Paris Review, 5 December 2017
Is music Literature? The CONTROVERSY over Bob dylan's nobel prize
From Orpheus to Bob Dylan, even the greatest musicians try to make music into an object, something we can see, something that has permanence.
Zócalo Public Square, 14 July 2017
how alpine yodelling mutated into blackface minstrelry
The strange but true story about how a family of Alpine singers were instrumental in the making of blackface minstrels.
Smithsonian’s "What It Means To Be American" Series, 27 December 2016
how to turn trump fans? Show them a greek tragedy
Tragedies reveal the horrible consequences of seeing things in black and white and so encourage us to discern shades of gray.
Huffington Post, 18 October 2016