Publications

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

In The Routledge Companion to the Contemporary Musical, edited by Jessica Sternfeld and Elizabeth Wollman. Routledge (2019).

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

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

"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)

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 Reimagining the 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, Childhood and Nineteenth-Century American Theatre: The Work of the Marsh Troupe of Juvenile Actors by Shauna Vey

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.

Forthcoming

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

In Children, Childhood and Musical Theater, edited by James Leve and Donelle Ruwe. Routledge.

Disney.

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

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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