It is always shocking to me how little faculty members talk about their strategies for time management when these skills are so crucial to our lives as academics! I am happy to talk with others about different strategies for setting and meeting research deadlines, protecting writing time, and balancing work responsibilities with family obligations (I'm the parent of a 3-year-old, and I can't make it through the week without carving out a little time for a swim at one of Berkeley's community pools, so it's a challenge to fit it all in!) I also love chatting about teaching in an age of AI and about how to make the university a more welcoming place for new students and new faculty members alike.
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I came to Berkeley's Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies from my first job in Toronto in 2016 and received tenure in 2018. One of my very favorite things about working here is the dedication and intellect of my colleagues! My research uses the literatures and performances of the circum-Atlantic world in the seventeenth-century as a jumping-off point to think about the histories of colonialism, empire, privacy, celebrity, and socioeconomic change that continue to shape our world today. My most recent book, Movable Londons: Performance and the Modern City, examines the changes to set design in the English public theaters as evidence for how unpropertied people (women, servants, immigrants, religious minorities, and enslaved people) shaped the rebuilding of London after the Great Fire of 1666.