Dr. Njus teaches graduate and undergraduate theatre history at Virginia Commonwealth University. She has previously taught at Fordham University and NYU, and she spent two years as an ACLS New Faculty Fellow at UC-Santa Barbara. Dr. Njus has published multiple articles and performance reviews in journals including Puppetry International Research, Theatre Journal, Fifteenth-Century Studies, and Church History and in edited collections such as Food and Theatre on the World Stage and Mystics, Goddesses, Lovers, and Teachers as well as for the Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival. Dr. Njus served as the assistant editor of the SETC journal Theatre Symposium and is currently co-editing The Global Middle Ages: Global Drama with Rob Barrett as part of the Cambridge series on the Global Middle Ages. Dr. Njus will be directing Ionesco’s absurdist masterpiece Rhinoceros for Virginia Commonwealth University in February 2025, and she co-hosts the Ask a Medievalist podcast with her LAMBDA-award-nominated cousin E. H. Lupton.
