RESEARCH

My research is my practice; my practice is my research. I wholeheartedly believe in this and I pillar this aspect of my work philosophy to my peers, colleagues, mentors, and students.

Though trained in the field of traditional Asian theatre as a practitioner, my scholarship is interdisciplinary. I found my way into the academy by theorizing about my own practices as a performer in a field that may be deemed as “too foreign” or “archaic” to others, focusing on the intricacies of interculturalism and globalization.

To further push my boundaries and limits of personal thought, my research exists at the intersection of Southeast Asian performance, cultural studies, global Asias, and affect theory. I am most interested in decolonizing and adapting ethnographic methodologies and approaches to performance studies to dispute who the academy is for and what scholarship should do for the general public.