I am a freelance developmental editor, specializing in ideas-driven books for academic and general audiences. I worked for three years as the Performance Review Editor of Theatre Journal, and have helped authors develop books for Chambers, Hachette, Brandeis University Press, the University of California Press, Princeton University Press, and New York University Press. My background is in the arts and humanities, but I enjoy working across disciplines and modes of thinking, especially when I get to explore a topic that I knew nothing about before.

In my own work as a writer and translator, I focus on African and South Asian literature, animal studies, theatre history, and critical theory. My articles and essays have been published in The Los Angeles Review of Books, African Theatre, and Performance Research, amongst others. I have a PhD in Performance Studies from UC Berkeley; an MA in Comparative Literature from the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London; and an AB in Comparative Literature, African Studies, and Creative Writing from Princeton. I served on the faculty at Harvard, NYU, and Brandeis, and was an affiliated researcher at the University of Nairobi and Tufts. I was also recently awarded a 2023-24 ACLS Fellowship.

Extracurricular interests include most music, some sci-fi, and all dogs.