RESIDENCIES
2019 — 2020
UCLA Center for Research in Engineering, Media and Performance
Research Fellow
2023 — 2024
2019 — 2024
UCLA Center for Scholars and Storytellers
Funders for Adolescent Science Translation Fellowship
Stanford University
Electrical Engineering Department
Researcher + Artist-in-residence
2021
2022
Architecture and Design Museum
Los Angeles
Artist
University College London
Computer Science Department
Visiting Scholar
PUBLICATIONS
books & series
Scent Trails: Olfaction in New Media, Performance, and Phenomenology — Monograph, In progress
Sensory Dramaturgy: Aesthetics for Nervous Systems, co-edited with Elizabeth McQueen and Sean Metzger — Edited Volume, In progress
Smell and Taste in Theatre History: A Roundtable Series, co-edited with Elizabeth McQueen — Theatre Journal, 2026–ongoing
Table One, 1500s–1800s. Contributors: Michelle Liu Carriger, Holly Dugan, Daniela Gutiérrez-Flores, Angela L. Robinson
articles & chapters
"Cyborg Sensorium: AI, Performance, & Interspecies Communication" — The Drama Review, Forthcoming 2026
"To Teach As If There Were No Future" — Research in Drama Education, 30(2), 2025. Co-authored with Electa Behrens, Felipe Cervera, Diana Damian Martin, Renata Gaspar, Sozita Goudouna, Kyoko Iwaki, Eero Laine, Sarah Lucie, Elizabeth McQueen, Theron Schmidt, and Rajni Shah
"Annotated Play Lists" in The Methuen Drama Handbook of Gender and Theatre, ed. Sean Metzger and Roberta Mock. Bloomsbury, 2024
reviews
The Cambridge Guide to Mixed Methods Research for Theatre and Performance Studies, ed. Tracy C. Davis and Paul Rae — Theatre Research International, 50(3), 2025. Co-authored with Elizabeth McQueen
The Under Presents, by Samantha Gorman and Danny Cannizzaro — Theatre Journal, 73(1), 2021
TALKS
public engagement & invited talks
"Staging AI: Navigating the Intersections of AI and Performance" — California Educational Theatre Association, San Diego, 2025. Featured Speaker.
"26,000 Snap Judgements" — NYU Tandon School of Engineering, NYC Media Lab, and Chanel, 2023
"Can We Smell in the Metaverse?" — World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland, 2023
"Just Under Our Noses: The Mysterious Influence of Scent" — Center for Reproductive Rights, United Nations, 2022
"Just Under Our Noses: The Mysterious Influence of Scent" — The New Savant, 2022
"Co-authoring with AI: Writing Scripts with Natural Language Processors" — Topanga Film Festival, 2022
"Multisensory Interfaces in Art" — Armory Center for the Arts, 2021
"Co-authoring Scripts with AI: Making Theater with Natural Language Processors" — AI4ALL, Berkeley x SFU, 2020
"Perfume For Avatars" — Experimental Scent Summit, 2020
"Immersive VR Panel Discussion" — Soho House, Los Angeles, 2019
academic conferences
"At The Species Boundary: AI, Performance, & Interspecies Communication" — ASTR, Denver, CO, 2025. Plenary.
"Translations of Unknowing" — 4S, Seattle, WA, 2025
"What Lies Below" — Uncommon Senses, Montreal, 2025
"Cyborg Sensorium" — SLSA, Corvallis, OR, 2025
"Olfactory Other: The Stench of Biopolitics and the Sensory Schisms of Virtual Reality" — SLSA, Dallas, TX, 2024
"Messages Slip Between: Employing the Senses as Hope for Multispecies Communication" — ASTR, Providence, RI, 2023
"Porous Borders: Olfaction and the Sensory Schisms of Virtual Reality" — ASTR, New Orleans, LA, 2022
"Scented Skies: Olfactory Frameworks for the Performance of Catastrophe" — ASTR, San Diego, CA, 2021
"Chemical Entanglements: Co-presence and Odorlessness Online" — IFTR, 2021
"Compression and Streaming Technologies for Live Theater" — Stanford University Compression Workshop, 2021
"The Value of Privacy and the Performance of the Surveilled" — ASTR, 2020
"Scent and the Politics of Detainment in New Media Art" — Making Sense Humanities Symposium, Rice University, 2020