academic & teaching life
Currently, I am an assistant professor of secondary literacy education at The University of New Mexico.
My research and scholarship surround the history of English education, critical and embodied literacy practices, canon studies, and the use of nontraditional and multimodal texts in the secondary language arts classroom.
“The best way to know life is
to love many things.”
creative life
I am the proud founder and artistic director of BreakingEven, an all-adult, mixed-level dance troupe made up of Albuquerque women who embrace embodied literacy and organic movement as a means of healing, storytelling, and community-building.
While BreakingEven puts on multiple variety shows and performs for local showcases and fundraisers, our true passion is our narrative shows: productions that combine dance and movement with original, feminist retellings of canonical literary works.
Such Unknown Horrors
north fourth art center
jan. 23, 24 & 25 | 2026
The year: 2224. Society, in ravages after a devastating plague sweeps through the lands for fifteen decades, slowly begins to recover. Losses, however, are substantial. Once great cities have crumbled into ruins.
The male population, particularly vulnerable to the clutches of the plague, is entirely decimated. Fear, uncertainty, and the weight of calamity permeate the minds of those who have persevered…