Affiliation

Associate Professor, Department of English (McGill University)

Research interests

Quebec theatre and cultural performance; theatre historiography; performance studies; drama theories; 20th-century performance; feminist and LGBTQ theatre

Contact information

Ongoing project

• "History of English-Language Theatre in Quebec, 1930-2015" (2018-2023)

Selected publications

Erin Hurley. “Monsters and Motivations: Nathalie Claude’s Solo Performances.” Interview of Nathalie Claude. Queer/ Play: Contemporary Queer Canadian Women’s Performance and Plays. Ed. Moynan King. Toronto: Playwrights Canada Press, 2017, 78-83.

Erin Hurley. “Occupying the Object: Leslie Baker and Andréane Leclerc in Performance.” In Performance Studies in Canada. Eds. Laura Levin and Marlis Schweitzer. Montréal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2017, 262-84.

Erin Hurley. “Devenir Autre: Marco Micone’s culture immigrée.” Theatre Research in Canada/Recherches théâtrales au Canada 25:1 (Spring/Fall printemps/automne 2004): 1-23.

Erin Hurley. "Double Identity: Performing (as) Objects on the contemporary Montreal stage", in Ireland and Quebec: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on History, Culture and Society, Margaret Kelleher and Michael Kenneally (ed.), Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2016, p. 227-242.

Erin Hurley. “The Multiple Bodies of the Cirque du Soleil”, in Cirque Global: Québec's Expanding Circus Boundaries, Charles Batson and Louis Patrick Leroux (ed.), Montréal, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2016.

Erin Hurley. “Performance Services: The Promises of the Cirque du Soleil”, in Cirque Global: Québec's Expanding Circus Boundaries, Charles Batson and Louis Patrick Leroux (ed.), Montréal, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2016, p. 71-78.

Erin Hurley. "Que disent les objets ? Vers un discours de l’objet sur les scènes montréalaises contemporaines", in Le jeu des positions: discours du théâtre québécois actuel, Louis Patrick Leroux and Hervé Guay (dir.), Montréal, Nota Bene, 2014, p. 79-139.

Erin Hurley (dir.). Theaters of Affects, Toronto, Playwrights Canada Press, 2014.

Erin Hurley (dir.), Once More, With Feeling: Five Affecting Plays, Toronto, Playwrights Canada Press, 2014.

Erin Hurley. National Performance: Representing Quebec from Expo 67 to Céline Dion, Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2010.

Erin Hurley. Theatre and Feeling, New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

Will Straw and Erin Hurley. Quebec Studies, vol. XXXIII, n° 48 "Are We American?", 2009-2010.