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Hannah CHESLOCK

Hannah CHESLOCK
Contact Information
Email address: 
hannah.cheslock [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Group: 
Doctoral Students
Stream: 
Drama and Theatre
Specialization by geographical area: 
Canada
United States
Great Britain
Specialization by time period: 
20th-Century
21st-Century
Contemporary
Area(s): 
Creative Practice & Performance Studies
Drama
Identity & Representation
Theatre & Performance
Biography: 

Hannah Cheslock is a PhD student in the Department of English at McGill University. Hannah’s doctoral research explores how religion is staged in contemporary drama as well as how faith and religious belief/non-belief is communicated through embodied performance. Her previous work has studied the politics of dramatic biblical adaptations in ‘secular’ performance settings.

Current research: 

contemporary drama and theatre, global anglophone drama, performance studies, religious studies, religion and literature/drama, interdisciplinary humanities, contemporary performance & creative practices, adaptation studies

Degree(s): 

PhD in English, McGill University (exp. 2029);
MSc in Religion & Literature, New College School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh (2023);
BA (Joint Hons) in English (Drama) & Religious Studies, McGill University (2021).

Awards, honours, and fellowships: 

GREAT (Graduate Research Enhancement and Travel) Award, McGill University (2025)
McGill Graduate Excellence Fellowship (2024)
Charles & Betty Maldoff Family Research Award (2019)
Robert W. Waddell Memorial Award, for excellence in academic and extracurricular achievement (2017)

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