Welcome to my website. I am an Assistant Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality and of History and Literature at Harvard University. My most recent book, a solo-edited anthology titled Cast Out: Queer Lives in Theater, was just published by the University of Michigan Press. My other books include Generation Q, a co-edited collection of essays by lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered youth; and Terrible, Terrible!, a children's book.

My current book project, "Racial Innocence: The Uses of Childhood in U.S. Racial Formation, 1852-1930," uses performance theory to argue that cultural constructions of childhood played a key role in American racial formation from the mid-nineteenth through the early twentieth century. An abstract is available.

This website contains my c.v. and syllabi for courses I've taught. The website also features a virtual library of useful full-length texts available on the Web.

Thanks for visiting! Feel free to email me with comments on this website.