My research interests include performance studies, environmental humanities, critical theory, cultural studies, and science fiction.
Journal Articles
“Remembrance Day for Lost Species: Toward an Ethics of Witnessing Extinction”
Performance Research 25, no. 2 (June 2020): 95–101. https://doi.org/10.1080/13528165.2020.1752582
“Food Futures: Speculative Performance in the Anthropocene”
Journal of American Drama and Theatre 29, no. 2 (Spring 2017).
“Performing Cognitive Estrangement: Future Memory Technics in Jordan Harrison’s Marjorie Prime“
Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction 128 (Winter 2017): 13–25.
Book Chapters
“Climate Crises and Contemporary British Women Theatremakers: Four Perspectives”
Invited contribution, in progress.
Methuen Drama Handbook of Women in Contemporary British Theatre, ed. Marissia Fragkou and Rebecca Benzie.
“Paleontological Performance at the Natural History Museum”
Forthcoming.
Identity, Culture, and the Science Performance Volume 1: From the Lab to the Streets, ed. Vivian Appler and Meredith Conti (New York: Bloomsbury, 2022).
Online
“On Sustainability and Solidarity”
Invited contribution.
Sustainable Academia, European Society for Environmental History, March 25, 2022.
“Slow Violence and the Youth Climate Movement”
Editor’s Forum: Theorizing the Contemporary, Fieldsights, Cultural Anthropology, March 24, 2020.
“‘Grieving Well’: On Mourning, Extinction, and White Privilege”
Environmental History Now, March 19, 2021.
“‘You Are Here’: Deep Time at the Smithsonian”
Environmental History Now, October 16, 2019.
Book Reviews
Review of Earth Matters on Stage: Ecology and Environment in American Theatre (Theresa J. May)
In progress, Theatre Annual
Review of Assuming the Ecosexual Position (Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens) and Eco Soma (Petra Kuppers)
Forthcoming, Performance Research
Review of Stages of Transmutation: Science Fiction, Biology, and Environmental Posthumanism (Tom Idema)
Forthcoming, Fafnir: Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research
Review of Fiction and the Sixth Mass Extinction: Narrative in an Era of Loss (ed. Jonathan Elmore)
Forthcoming, Gothic Nature
“Collaboration, Mourning, Growth: Review of Grievers by adrienne maree brown“
Ancillary Review of Books, December 27, 2021.
Review of Fall of the Wild: Extinction, De-extinction, and the Ethics of Conservation (Ben A. Minteer)
H-Net Environment, January 2022.
Review of Plants in Science Fiction (ed. Katherine E. Bishop, David Higgins, Jerry Määttä)
Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 32, no. 1 (2021): 11–14.
“What Does it Mean to Grieve?: Review of The Impossible Resurrection of Grief by Octavia Cade“
Ancillary Review of Books, June 9, 2021.
Review of Ecologies of Precarity in Twenty-First Century Theatre: Politics, Affect, Responsibility (Marissia Fragkou)
Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism 35, no. 1 (2020): 157–59.
Review of Affective Ecocriticism: Emotion, Embodiment, Environment (ed. Kyle Bladow and Jennifer Ladino)
H-Net Environment, February 9, 2021.
Other Reviews
Review of Sex and Consequences by Isabella Rossellini
Theatre Journal 73, no. 2 (June 2021): 240–42.
Review of DODO by Bricolage Production Company
Theatre Journal 70, no. 2 (December 2018): 544–55.
“‘They Smell the Same’: Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite“
Gothic Nature 2 (March 2021): 264–67.
Shelby Brewster 