Abstract
- This reflective essay re-creates two conversations that set my path as a performance studies scholar. The first takes place at the beginning of the last year of my undergraduate degree when a professor directed me away from law school and toward a communication degree with a performance studies concentration. The second takes place the summer before I began graduate school as I struggled to figure out how to ask Kristin Langellier to be my thesis adviser. I end with a letter to my undergraduate professor, thanking him for changing my path. Together, these interactions map my journey to performance.