Research

ARTICLES

“Taming the Tomboy: Child Actresses as Prince Arthur in King John (1842-52).” Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film, vol. 52.1., pp. 1-14, 2025.

“‘From the text of Shakspeare’: William Charles Macready, King Lear, and the Theatrical Antiquarianism of Locrine.” Journal of the Wooden O, vol. 20.1, pp. 32-48, 2021.

ESSAYS IN EDITED COLLECTIONS

“‘The beautiful, the elegant, the lively, Rosalind’: Eulogizing the Extraordinary Miss Walstein.” The Shakespearean International Yearbook: Trans Performance of Shakespeare, eds. Alexa Alice Joubin and Lisa Starks, Routledge.

“‘Mr. Macready in little’: Charlotte Cushman, William Charles Macready, and Shakespearean Mentorship.” The Idea of the Shakespearean Actor, eds. Sally Barnden, Emer McHugh, and Miranda Fay Thomas (forthcoming).

REVIEWS

Shakespeare and the Royal Actor: Performing Monarchy, 1760-1952 by Sally Barnden (Oxford University Press, 2024). Journal of British Studies (forthcoming).

“Crossdressed Characters in Early Modern European Theatre: A Database by Ana Valdemoros and David Amelang” in David J. Amelang, Rolecall: A Database of Characters in in Early Modern European Theatre. Early Modern Digital Review (forthcoming).

DIGITAL HUMANITIES PROJECTS

Principal Investigator, Points Like A Man: The Shakespearean Breeches Performance Catalogue, 1660-1900.

Research Assistant, The Maria Edgeworth Letters Project. Responsible for transcribing and XML/TEI-encoding letters written to and from Maria Edgeworth. 2022-2023.

Research Assistant, Digital Restoration Drama. Transcribed, edited, and XML/TEI-encoded Restoration playbooks. Summer 2023.

Doctoral Fellow, Early Modern Dramatic Paratexts. Responsible for researching early modern English playbook metadata as well as transcribing and coding playbook paratexts.
2022-2023.

Doctoral Fellow, World Shakespeare Bibliography Online. Responsible for reading new research on Shakespeare and writing annotations for database bibliography. 2022-2023.

PUBLIC WRITING

“Black Minstrelsy in Bryan, Texas.” African-American Life in Brazos County, Texas. 2022.

“Promptbooks.” Centre for Early Modern Studies blog, King’s College London. 2021.

“The curious and complicated case of Locrine.” Folger Shakespeare Library Shakespeare & Beyond blog. 2021.

“William Charles Macready and the restoration of William Shakespeare’s King Lear.” Folger Shakespeare Library Shakespeare & Beyond blog. 2020.

“A history of the Theatre Royal Haymarket and its struggle to break through London’s restrictions on Shakespeare.” Folger Shakespeare Library Shakespeare & Beyond blog. 2020.

“Analyzing Moll’s Descriptors in The Roaring Girl.” Folger Shakespeare Library Digital Anthology of Early Modern English Drama. 2017.

DIGITAL PROJECT PRESENTATIONS

Points Like A Man: The Shakespearean Breeches Performance Catalogue, 1660-1900. presentation and demonstration. Texas A&M Center of Digital Humanities Research (CoDHR) Digital Humanities Project Poster Showcase. 2025.

Points Like A Man: The Shakespearean Breeches Performance Catalogue, 1660-1900. Project presentation and demonstration. Texas Digital Humanities Symposium. 2024.

Points Like A Man: The Shakespearean Breeches Performance Catalogue, 1660-1900. Project presentation and demonstration. Texas A&M Folio Futures Symposium. 2024.

Points Like A Man: The Shakespearean Breeches Performance Catalogue, 1660-1900. Invited project presentation and demonstration. Texas A&M Center of Digital Humanities Research (CoDHR) Digital Humanities Project Showcase. 2024.

CONFERENCE PAPER PRESENTATIONS

“Women as Wildair: Genderfluidity and Common Language in George Farquhar’s The Constant Couple and Sir Harry Wildair (1792-97).” North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR) Conference. 2025.

“‘The beautiful, the elegant, the lively, Rosalind’: Eulogizing the Extraordinary Miss Walstein.” British Association for Romantic Studies (BARS) “Expanding Queer Romanticisms” Digital Symposium. 2025.

“Britain in Breeches: Silvia, The Recruiting Officer, and the War of 1812.” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) Conference. 2025.

“Shakespearean Boy Princes and Staged Tomboyism” dissertation chapter. Texas A&M Glasscock Center of Humanities Research Colloquium Series. 2024.

“‘And in a dungeon kept’: Gendered Imprisonments in Joanna Baillie’s The Family Legend.” North American Society for the Study of Romanticism Conference, Sam Houston State University. 2023.

“Queen Victoria, William Charles Macready, and the Performance of Resentment in Cymbeline.” North American Victorian Studies Association Conference, Lehigh University. 2022.

“Sexualizing Peg as Polly in The Beggar’s Opera.” TxETA Higher Education Research Conference, Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi. 2022.

“Staging Turkey on English Stages: Representational Stage Directions in A Mogul Tale and A Day in Turkey.” British Women Writers Association Conference, Baylor University. 2022.

“‘In his old lines again’: John Moore’s Prompt Books of The Merry Wives of Windsor.” All The World’s A Stage Conference, University of Liverpool. 2022.

“Reconstructing Shakespeare: The Prompt Books of John Moore.” C19: Society for Nineteenth-Century Americanists Conference. 2022.

“Queering Shakespearean Performance History: The Case of Charlotte Cushman.” Shakespeare Association of America Theoretical Futures Graduate Symposium. 2022.

“‘One of Shakespeare’s Queens, and one of our own’: Charlotte Cushman as Queen Katharine in Shakespeare’s Henry VIII.” British Graduate Shakespeare Conference, The Shakespeare Institute. 2021.

“William Charles Macready, King Lear, and the Theatrical Antiquarianism of Locrine.” The Wooden O Symposium, Utah Shakespeare Festival. 2020.

***SEMINARS* *AND ROUNDTABLES***

“Prompting Rosalind’s Genderfluidity in Macready’s As You Like It (1842)” paper presented as part of “As You Like It, As You Like It” seminar. Shakespeare Association of America (SAA) Conference. 2025.

“The Maria Edgeworth Letters Project: A Digital Scholarly Edition” joint paper with Dr. Robin Runia and Jamie Kramer presented on “What is a Scholarly Edition?” roundtable. Modern Language Association (MLA) Convention. 2025.

“The Stage on the Page: Performance Notes in the Modern Edition” paper presented on “Making Print Editions” roundtable. Texas A&M Folio Futures Symposium. 2024.

“Accessing Shakespeare Beyond Text: Concept, Vision, Age, Gender, Race, and Identities.” Blackfriars Conference. American Shakespeare Center. 2019.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

“Early Modern Trans Archives.” Newberry Library research methods workshop led by Simone Chess, Colby Gordon, and Sawyer Kemp, 2025.

“Researching and Writing the Early Modern Dissertation.” Folger Shakespeare Library, Folger Institute yearlong seminar led by Herman Bennett and Jenny Mann, 2024-2025.

“Next Gen Editing: Shakespeare.” Folger Shakespeare Library, Folger Institute yearlong seminar led by Emma Smith. 2023-2024.

“Rac(e)ing the Shakespearean Archive: Antebellum, Civil War, and Reconstruction New Orleans.” Folger Shakespeare Library, Folger Institute workshop led by Michael Kuczynski and John Proctor at Tulane University, 2023.

“On Stage: Spectacle in Nineteenth-Century America.” Center for Historic American Visual Culture, American Antiquarian Society seminar led by Wendy Bellion, Bethany Hughes, Douglas A. Jones, Jr., and Joseph Roach, 2022.

“Making Meaning: Hands-On Basic Paleography and Book Production.” Folger Shakespeare Library, Folger Institute program led by Margaret Ezell, Kevin O’Sullivan, and Heather Wolfe at Texas A&M University, 2022.

“Orientation to Research Methods and Agendas.” Folger Shakespeare Library, Folger Institute program led by Kathleen Lynch, Owen Williams, and Elisa Oh, 2019.

“Opening the Digital Anthology of Early Modern English Drama.” Folger Shakespeare Library, Folger Institute program led by Syd Bauman, Kristen Bennett, Sarah Connell, Joe Loewenstein, and Dan Shore, 2017.