Publications

"Ease on Down the Road": Black Routes and the Soul of The Wiz.

In The Wizard of Oz: Musical Adaptations from Baum to MGM and Beyond, edited by Danielle Birkett and Dominic McHugh. Oxford University Press (2018). 

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"Love Is an Open Door": Repeating and Revising Disney’s Musical Tropes in Frozen.

In Contemporary Musical Film, edited by Beth Carroll and KevinDonnelly. University of Edinburgh Press (2017)

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 You Can’t Stop the Tweet: Convergence Culture and Networks of Participation in the Live Television Musical.

In iBroadway:Musical Theatre in the Digital Age, edited by Jessica Hillman. Palgrave (2017).

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Repetition, Resistance, and the Child as Performing Object in Disney’s It’s a Small World.

In Reimaginingthe Child: Proceedings of the 2016 Rutgers-Camden Graduate Student Conference in Childhood Studies, edited by Julian Burton and Katie Fredricks (2017).

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Book Review of Shana Vey's Childhood and Nineteenth-Century American Theatre: The Work of the Marsh Troupe of Juvenile Actors

In The Lion and the Unicorn 40, no. 1 (2016): 124-127.

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 Oz and the Musical: The American Art Form and the Reinvention of the American Fairy Tale. 

In Studies in Musical Theatre 9, no. 1 (2015): 53-69.

Coming Soon

Beginning with Do Re Mi: Childhood and The Sound of Music.

In Broadway Babies: Children, Childhood and Musical Theater, edited by James Leve and Donelle Ruwe. Ashgate (Forthcoming).

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“My Corner of the Sky": Adolescence and Coming of Age in the Musicals of Stephen Schwartz.

In The Routledge Companion to the American Stage Musical: 1970 and Beyond, edited by Jessica Sternfeld and Elizabeth Wollman. Routledge (Forthcoming).

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Disney.

In The SAGE Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood Studies, edited by Daniel Thomas Cook.

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The Wizard of Oz on Screen.

In The Oxford Handbook of Children's Film, edited by Noel Brown. Oxford University Press.

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