Research

Publications

Articles:

“‘all that is dark, potential, and quiet’: Riding the Hinge in The Witch’s Dance.” Anthropology of Consciousness (2024).

“Suffering The Spirits: Affective Excess in Early Twentieth Century Spiritualist Séance Performance  Technique.” Preternature: Critical and Historical Studies on the Preternatural 11, no. 2 (2022).

“Beware the Word: Butoh, Ethnotheatre, and the Limits of Speech.” PARtake: The Journal of Performance as Research 4, no. 1 (2021). [Re-printed in Retrospective Issue 6, no. 2 (2024)]

Book Chapters:

“Disappearing Acts: Attending ‘Witch School’ in Brooklyn, NY.” In The Witch Studies Reader, ed. Soma Chaudhuri and Jane Ward. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2025).

“Butoh Beyond the Body: Shakina Nayfack on Transition, Evolution, and the Spirit at War.” In The Routledge Companion to Butoh Performance, ed. Bruce Baird and Rosemary Candelario. (New York: Routledge, 2020.)

Practice-Based Research Initiatives

The Witch’s Dance (2024-present)

Ghostly Practice (2014-present)

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