Profile

I am an interdisciplinary humanities scholar developing a program of research at the intersection of Age/Health and Culture. Working at the intersections of Theatre and Performance Studies, Critical Media Studies, Critical Age Studies, Disability Studies, and Health Humanities, my research examines how theatre, performance, television drama, film, photography, and visual culture construct, reproduce, and challenge cultural narratives of aging, dementia, health, and disability. 

My SSHRC-funded postdoctoral project, Moving through Dementia: Enabling Embodied Creativity of Immigrants Living with Dementia through a Culturally Tailored Movement Program (2025–2027), employs collaborative movement-making with Korean Canadian older adults living with dementia. Informed by strengths-based approaches in Critical Disability Studies, the project challenges culturally rooted dementia stigma associated with loss and decline, foregrounding participants’ embodied capacities for creative expression, connection, cultural participation, and selfhood.