studying

My major research areas are in the critical cultural intersections of performance studies, rhetoric and composition, and autoethnography. I am working on the connections between performance and writing, especially performative writing, via the body as the living nexus of writing and speaking. In particular, I am focused on writing that invites the reader to become a co-author, and on speaking that invites the listener to become a co-performer.

As I become an American citizen in New England, my primary interests are in teaching and studying issues of democracy and citizenship. Living in between and beyond many seemingly unquestionable identities of languages, religions, ethnicities, races, and nationalities, I have a reckless passion for questioning answers that seem too persistent in their finality. Working in the divisive political climate of the contemporary United States, my goal is to think and act in between and beyond our severely limited options.