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 I trained in 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 “too foreign” or “archaic” to others, focusing on the intricacies of interculturalism and globalization.

To further push my intellectual boundaries, my research sits at the intersection of performance studies, global Asias, and critical 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.