2026

I graduated from Goldsmiths, University of London in September 2025, receiving an MA with distinction in World Performances, Theatres, & Cultures. In April 2026, I published an excerpt of my MA thesis in print and online for ‘Stance on Dance’ magazine, a dance and movement journal based in the San Francisco/Bay Area. My graduate research focused on gender dynamics in Igbo masquerade traditions, specifically the origins of women’s exclusion from this male-dominated ritual theater practice. However, using oral histories I collected in Southeastern Nigeria, I documented and analyzed evidence of women’s participation and even origination of masquerade in certain parts of Igboland. This excerpt details an emerging counterhistory of Igbo women’s masquerade, grounded in what I call the “embodied archives” of indigenous historiographic practice (ie: oral tradition).

You can read this essay and learn more about my research by visiting the ‘Stance on Dance’ website here.

2025

My poem, titled “host” was published online by the Academy of American Poets in 2025. You can read this poem (or listen to me read it) on Poetry.com.