Guillaume Tourniaire was a 2017-2018 Mellon Collaborative Fellows for Reaching New Publics. He has taught courses in theater history and analysis at the University of Washington, Cornish College of the Arts, and Catholic University. He has also given workshops on acting and audition techniques at American University, Peabody Conservatory, and Gettysburg College.

His dissertation, Show Boat's "Make Believe;" Subversions of Stereotype and Sympathy as Liberalism explores the manipulations of popular performance forms in musicals as a means of modeling inclusion and redefining full American citizenship.