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Professor Fiona Ritchie

Position: 
Assistant Professor
Fiona Ritchie
Office: 
Arts 325
Phone: 
514-398-4400 Ext 09995
Email Address: 
fiona [dot] ritchie [at] mcgill [dot] ca
Mailing Address: 

Department of English
853 Sherbrooke Street West
Arts Building
Montreal, QC H3A 0G5 CANADA

Degrees and Academic Title(s): 

B.A. Honours, M.A. (Durham), Ph.D. (King’s College London), Assistant Professor

General Research Areas: 
Drama and Theatre
Restoration
Eighteenth Century
Teaching and Research Areas: 

Shakespeare, Restoration and eighteenth-century theatre; gender and theatre history

Taught previously at: 

King’s College London

Awards and Fellowships: 
  • FQRSC programme pour l’établissement de nouveau professeurs-chercheurs (2009-2012)
  • Lewis Walpole Library fellowship (2009)
  • Huntington Library fellowships (2005 and 2009)
  • Arts and Humanities Research Board Ph.D award (2002-2005)
Selected Publications : 

Articles:

"The Artistic, Cultural, and Economic Power of the Actress in the Age of Garrick", Shakespeare in Stages: New Theatre Histories, eds. Christine Dymkowski and Christie Carson (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), 107-23.

“Women and Shakespeare in the Restoration and Eighteenth Century”,Literature Compass 5.6 (September 2008), 1154-69.

“The Influence of the Female Audience on the Shakespeare Revival of 1736‐38: The Case of the Shakespeare Ladies Club”, Shakespeare and the Eighteenth Century, eds. Peter Sabor and Paul Yachnin (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008), 57-69.

“Shakespeare and the Eighteenth-Century Actress”, Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation 2.2 (2006).
Read the article online.

“Elizabeth Montagu: ‘Shakespear’s Poor Little Critick’?” Shakespeare Survey 58 (2005), 72-82.

Reviews:

Eric Rasmussen and Aaron Santesso, eds., Comparative Excellence: New Essays on Shakespeare and Johnson, AMS Studies in the Eighteenth Century 52 (New York: AMS Press, 2007), Review of English Studies 59:238 (February 2008): 152-54.

“The Big Life by Paul Sirett”, Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation 1.2 (2005) Read the article online.

Exhibition:

Behind the Scenes: The Hidden Life of Georgian Theatre, 1737-1784 (Dr Johnson’s House, London, April – September 2007).

Current Research: 

Monograph on women’s responses to Shakespeare in the long eighteenth century; co-editor (with Peter Sabor) of a collection of essays on eighteenth-century Shakespeare for Cambridge University Press.

Research groups:

  • Shakespeare and Performance Research Team (website)
  • McGill Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies Representation, Performance, Culture research axis (website)
  • FQRSC research-creation project Hypertext and Performance: a resonant response to Joanna Baillie’s Witchcraft (Principal Investigator Patrick Leroux, Concordia University)
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