Publications

BOOKS/MONOGRAPHS AUTHORED

• The Routledge Companion to Theatre-Fiction. Editor. Routledge, 2024.
• Theatre-Fiction in Britain from Henry James to Doris Lessing: Writing in the Wings. Routledge, 2019.

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

• • "Mikhail Bulgakov's Black Snow: Getting First-Personal with Stanislavski." The Routledge Companion to Theatre-Fiction. Routledge, 2024. 243-260.
  • "Curtain Raiser: The Comic Romance of Theatre and Novel." The Routledge Companion to Theatre-Fiction. Routledge, 2024. 16-26.
  • "Introduction: When Novels Turn to Theatre." The Routledge Companion to Theatre-Fiction. Routledge, 2024. 1-13.
  • “Enjoyment as a Theatrical Object: The Actor as Neighbour.” Žižek and Performance. Eds. Broderick Chow and Alex Mangold. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. 110-125.
  • “Žižek and the 80s Movie Song: ‘There is a Non-relationship’.” The Žižek and Media Studies Reader. Eds. Matthew Flisfeder and Louis-Paul Willis. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. 91-102.
  • “Doorways and Blank Spaces: Intertextual Connection in John Guare’s Six Degrees of Separation.” Intertextual Exchanges in American Drama. Eds. Drew Eisenhauer and Brenda Murphy. Jefferson: McFarland, 2012. 217-231.

ARTICLES IN JOURNALS

• • "Biopolitical Animation: A Lockdown Reading of Mandel's Station Eleven." Performance Research 27.1 (2022): 122-130.
  • "Iris Murdoch and the Immoralities of Adaptation." Adaptation (2022).
  • “Theatrical Extraneity: John Irving’s A Prayer for Owen Meany and Dickensian Theatre-Fiction.” Dickens Quarterly (2019): 350-372.
  • "Really Existing Ghosts: A Spectral Reading of Conor McPherson's The Veil." Performance Research 23.3 (2018): 113-123.
  • "Eleanor Catton's The Rehearsal: Theatrical Fantasy and the Gaze." Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature 49.3 (2016):  91-108.
  • "Sondheim's A Little Night Music: Reconciling the Comic and the Sublime." Studies in Musical Theatre 8.2 (2014): 143-157.
  • "Black Holes in the Mask: Looking Awry on the Feminine Subject in Sharon Pollock’s Blood Relations.” Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism 29.1 (2014): 25-44.
  • "Staging Everyday Ghosts: Conor McPherson’s Shining City.” Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 24.2 (2013): 188-210.
  • “Normand Chaurette’s Fragments d’une lettre d’adieu lus par des géologues and the Žižekian Death Drive.” Theatre Research in Canada 34.1 (2013): 238-253.
  • “Making the Real Appear: Schmitt’s Enigma Variations as a ‘Traversal of the Fantasy’.” Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature 46.2 (2013): 147-162.
  • “Voices, Monstrous and Hopeful: Catalyst Theatre’s Frankenstein.” The Brock Review 12.2 (2012): 36-48.
  • “The ‘Sexuation’ of Sublimation: A Žižekian Approach to John Mighton’s Possible Worlds.” Modern Drama 54.2 (2011): 194–215.
  • “Tony Kushner’s The Illusion and Comedy’s ‘Traversal of the Fantasy’.” Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism 26.1 (2011): 45–64.
  • “Shape-shifting in Caryl Churchill’s The Skriker.” Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 22.2 (2011): 234–256.
  • “Losing What We Never Had: Žižek and Lacan Rock On with Bryan Adams.” The International Journal for Žižek Studies 5.4 (2011).
  • “Enjoying Equus: Jouissance in Shaffer’s Play.” PsyArt: Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts (2010).
  • “Love and Desire ‘Between Two Deaths’: Žižek avec An-sky.” The International Journal for Žižek Studies 4.3 (2010).
  • “Review of Death of a Salesman.” Arthur Miller Journal 6.1 (2011): 131–134.
  • “Still Desire You: Revisiting Canada’s Most Famous Case of Celebrity Infatuation.” Canadian Theatre Review 141 (2010): 106–108.
  • “Review of Someone’s Going to Come.” Canadian Theatre Review 139 (2009): 95–97.