Marie TROTTER

Marie TROTTER
Contact Information
Email address: 
marie.trotter [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Address: 

Arts Building
853 Sherbrooke Street West
Montreal, QC H3A 0G5
Canada

Group: 
Lecturers
Doctoral Students
Stream: 
Literature
Drama and Theatre
Specialization by geographical area: 
Canada
United States
Great Britain
Specialization by time period: 
Early Modern
21st-Century
Contemporary
Area(s): 
Creative Practice & Performance Studies
Drama
Philosophical Approaches
Theatre & Performance
Areas of interest: 

Shakespeare; renaissance drama; medieval drama; metatheatre; performance phenomenology; audience reception; creative practice; production history

Biography: 

Marie Trotter is a PhD Candidate and course lecturer in the Department of English at McGill University, researching metatheatre and audience reception in the performance of Shakespeare’s plays. Through the lens of performance phenomenology, her dissertation explores the role of metatheatrical characters and scene types in shaping audience judgment, participation, and delight. Her work is published in the journals Theatre Research in Canada and Early Theatre, with creative writing and criticism appearing in the magazines Ekstasis, Broadview, Plough, and Intermission. She teaches theatre history at the National Theatre School of Canada.

Degree(s): 

Ph.D., McGill University (exp. 2026)
M.A., Queen's University, 2019
B.A. (Honours, high distinction), University of Toronto, 2017

Selected publications: 

Articles

Piercing the Veil: Metatheatrical Speech Acts in the Stratford Festival’s 2022 Hamlet. Theatre Research in Canada, vol. 44 no. 2, August 2023.

Reviews

Review: “Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Reformation: Literary Negotiation of Religious Difference” by Dennis Taylor. Literature and Theology, upcoming 2025.

Review: “Shakespeare, Technicity, and Theatre” by W.B. Worthen. Early Theatre, vol. 26 no. 1, 6 June 2023.

Public Scholarship

How Shakespeare can help us overcome loneliness in the digital age.” The Conversation, with Prof. Paul Yachnin, 13 August 2025.

Awards, honours, and fellowships: 
  • Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council SSHRC Doctoral Award, 2023-2026
  • Faculty of Arts Internship Award, 2024
  • Lang Family Text and Performance Fellowship, 2022
  • Archie Malloch Fellowship, 2022
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