Expertise

Reseach:

  • Early Modern French Drama (theater, opera, ballet, festivals)
  • Intellectual and cultural history of the French Renaissance
  • Relationship between music and literature

 Subject Area(s):

  • French and Italian
  • Theatre, Drama and Contemporary Dance

Her current book project, The Mechanics of the Passions on the French Baroque Stage, studies how the emergence of sentimentality in French baroque drama was influenced by stage technology, specifically machines, automata, and androids.  


Expertise:

  • Drama
  • Early Modern France
  • Literature
Communities
European Studies, Italian, French
Degrees
PhD, Johns Hopkins University, French, 2009
BA, Johns Hopkins University, French and Voice, 2002
BM, Manhattan School of Music, Voice, 1998