Teaching

A decade ago, when Duke University teamed up with Apple to bring iPods into the classroom, I was one of the first in line. Through an Instructional Technology Fellowship, I developed a course on Old Time Radio. Able to playback radio shows and record audio, the iPod became our textbook and a content creation tool. Eager to expand what and how we study, as well as to extend student impact beyond the university, this class is a paradigm for how I teach. 

Whether it’s opera at the University of Pennsylvania, Greek literature at the University of Chicago, or getting drama up on its feet at the University of East Anglia, I work to blend music, literature, and drama, to give old texts a new life, and to inspire students through my research. 

The Theater of the mind

I launched this course from a grant with a joint effort with Apple over a decade ago at Duke University. Instead of books, students used an iPod loaded with our texts: radio dramas from 1930-1970. As theatre students, instead of building toward a live performance as their peers did but in time-shifted, location-independent audio dramas that had impact beyond the final grade to reach out into the wider world. The course was picked up by global media.

new media in theory and practice

Following on from my Theater of the `mind course, I developed and co-taught `new media with K. Anne Amienne at Duke University. Here are some things I loved about that course. The here are some things `i loved about it and why we designed it the way we didper.

performance studies

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