Interpretive work

“How Spectators Became Fans”: A proposed exhibition that would explore how consumer capitalism transformed the ancient act of spectatorship into the modern practice of fandom. The organization would follow the different stages of cultivating fandom–publicity, commodification, engagement, and identification–and the new media formats that have facilitated them. (abstract and checklist drafted, search for venue in progress)

Video interview on LGBT+ performers and audiences, Nineteenth Century Stage, Adam Matthew Digital (forthcoming)

“Programs,” Theatre Things: Material Theories and Histories, edited by Eero Laine and Andrew Friedman, University of Michigan Press (forthcoming; manuscript available by request)

“The Hollywood Musical” Omeka exhibit. The final project for Eng 392a/FLME 321a at DePauw University, this digital exhibition brings together materials from over 125 years of theatre & film history to illustrate how the evolving form of the musical created utopian worlds through which characters and spectators could channel their social aspirations. Students wrote the item labels and section labels, while I wrote the introductory label and created the website. A collaboration with the Harry Ransom Center's Instructional Services department. (Fall 2023)

Archival processing

Howard Stoner Course Materials Collection, 1994-2017, University Archives, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University (Summer 2018)

Columbia LGBT Records, 1961-1990 [1967-1989], University Archives, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University (Summer 2017)

Theater Scrapbooks Collection, 1891-1949, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University (Summer 2016)

Section image: Programme for “The Sultan of Mocha” at the Strand Theatre, 21 September 1887, via Wikimedia Commons (public domain)