McGill University Department of English
853 Sherbrooke Street West
Arts Building
Montreal, QC H3A 0G5 CANADA
B.A. Honours (McGill); M.A. (Brown University); Ph.D. (City University of New York); Associate Professor
Quebecois theatre and cultural performance; national performatives; theatre historiography; performance studies; dramatic theory; 20th century theatre; feminist and LGBTQ theatre.
University of British Columbia; Brown University.
- 2011-2012 Pierre Savard Award (book written in English or French) for an outstanding scholarly monograph on a Canadian topic from the International Council for Canadian Studies for National Performance: Representing Quebec from Expo 67 to Céline Dion.
- Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Queen Mary University of London, Department of Drama, June 2012.
- 2011 Ann Saddlemyer Award for a scholarly book from the Canadian Association for Theatre Research: for National Performance: Representing Quebec from Expo 67 to Céline Dion
- 2009 NeMLA Book Award, National Performance: Representing Québec from Expo 67 to Céline Dion.
- “Special Mention” by the 2008 Jean-Cleo Godin Prize committee of the Canadian Association for Theatre Research, for the excellence of the dossier, “Les arts de la scène au Québec”. Globe. Revue internationale d’études québécoises 11:2 (2008).
- SSHRC Standard Research Grant, 2008-2011, "Theatre and Feeling"
- UBC Scholar, Centre for Research in Women’s Studies and Gender Relations, 2002 – 2003
- (with Jennifer Harvie) 2000 ATHE Essay in Criticism Award for “States of Play: Locating Québec in the Performances of Robert Lepage, Ex Machina and the Cirque du Soleil.” Theatre Journal 51 (1999): 299-315
Books:
National Performance: Representing Quebec from Expo 67 to Céline Dion. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011. Look at its description online.
See media coverage:
- Journal de Montréal: Celine Dion, personnalité emblematique du Quebec
- Montreal Gazette: McGill prof advocates study Céline
- Montreal Gazette: Celine Dion is an ambiguous figure in quebec culture says McGill prof
- etalk video clip
Theatre & Feeling. Foreword Anne Bogart. Series "Theatre & . . ." Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, July 2010. Look at its description online.
See book review:
http://www.rhul.ac.uk/dramaandtheatre/documents/pdf/platform/61/9bookreviews.pdf [review begins at page 115]
Special Journal Issues:
Erin Hurley and Sara Warner, eds. “Affect, Performance, Politics,” special dossier of The Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism XXVI: 2 (Spring 2012).
Co-editor, with Will Straw, special dossier, "Are We American?" Québec Studies 48 (Fall 2009/Winter 2010): 3 - 66.
Directrice, numéro spécial sur “Les arts de la scène,” Globe. Revue internationale d’études québécoises 11:2 (Fall 2008).
revueglobe.uqam.ca
Selected articles:
Erin Hurley and Sara Warner, “Affect, Performance, Politics.” The Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism XXVI: 2 (Spring 2012).
“Performance Studies in Canada.” Canadian Theatre Review 149 (Winter 2012): 84-7.
“Companioned Solos: Nathalie Claude’s “Madness Trilogy”. Canadian Theatre Review 149 (Winter 2012): 22-6.
“What Consolation? Incendies on stage and screen” alt.theatre: cultural diversity and the stage 8:3 (March 2011): 23-28.
"Céline Dion à Las Vegas, ou les affects de la simulation." Trad. Isabelle Léger. L'Annuaire théâtral 45 (Printemps 2009 [published Spring 2010]): 21-44.
"Original Versions: 'L'affaire Nancy Huston' and Authorized Performance." Changing the Subject: Marvin Carlson and Theatre Studies 1959 - 2009. Ed. Joseph Roach. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2009. 261-77.
“Le Cirque: de la différance à la ressemblance.” Spirale. No. 227 (July/August 2009): 24-8.
“Celine Dion’s Las Vegas Aesthetics,” Revista Mexicana de Estudios Canadienses (Fall/Winter 2008): 113-121.
“Les corps multiples du Cirque du Soleil,” Traduit de l’anglais par Isabelle Léger. Globe. Revue internationale d’études québécoises 11:2 (Fall 2008): 135-157.
“Introduction: Le grand récit des arts de la scène au Québec,” Globe. Revue internationale d’études québécoises 11:2 (Fall 2008): 11-22.
“Theatre as National Export: On Being and Passing in the United States.” Reprinted in Spaces and the Geographies of Canadian Theatre, Ed. Michael McKinnie. Toronto: Playwrights Canada Press, 2007, 174-193.
“Blackout: Utopian Technologies in Adrienne Kennedy's Funnyhouse of a Negro” Modern Drama 47:2 (Summer 2004): 200-18
(with Jennifer Harvie) “States of Play: Locating Québec in the Performances of Robert Lepage, Ex Machina and the Cirque du Soleil,” Theatre Journal 51 (1999): 299-315.
Editorial Work:
Series co-editor with Patrick Lonergan, Methuen Drama Critical Companions
Editor, Book Reviews, Theatre Research in Canada / Recherches théâtrales au Canada
Visiting Speaker, Department of Theatre, Film and Dance, Cornell University, April 2012.
Editor, The Theatre of Affect (Essays), Volume 4 in the New Essays on Canadian Theatre series, Gen. Ed. Ric Knowles. Toronto: Playwrights Canada Press, forthcoming 2014.
Editor, The Theatre of Affect (Plays). Toronto: Playwrights Canada Press, forthcoming 2014.
Convening a working group at the Canadian Association for Theatre Research conference in May 2012 on "Affect / Canada / Theatre: once more with feeling."
Research Group Memberships:
Memory and Representations of the Past in Quebec and Ireland, (FQRSC and IRCHSS [Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences]), 2010-12.
Montreal Working Group on circus/cirque, http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12029626/circus/index.html, 2010 -