About
me...
Education: M.A.
(English @ University of Western Ontario), M.F.A. (Theatre Design @
University of Victoria), Ph.D. (Drama @ University of
Toronto).
Awards: Clifford Leech Dissertation Prize from University of Toronto
Nominated for Governor General's Gold Medal for Ph.D.
Honourable Mention Richard Plant Essay Award (2006 publication)
Drama Department Teaching Award 2004-2005 and 2008-2009
My
principal areas of
research interest are in Renaissance drama, contemporary Canadian
drama,
metatheatricality, autobiographical performance, and performativity in fictional worlds-within.
Publications:
"After the Apple: Post-lapsarian Realism in Garden//Suburbia -- an autobiographical site-specific work" New Canadian Realisms. Ed. Roberta Barker and Kim Solga. (Toronto: Playwrights Canada, 2012)
"BIOBOXES:
Artifacting Human Experience" introduction to playscripts. Anthology of
New Canadian Realisms. Ed. Roberta Barker and Kim Solga (Toronto:
Playwrights Canada, 2012)
Performing Autobiography in Contemporary Canadian Drama (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012)
"The ICE Approach: Saving the World One Broken Toaster at a Time" co-authored with Grahame Renyk. Canadian Theatre Review 147 (Summer 2011).
Solo Performance Critical
Perspectives on Canadian Theatre in English series (Toronto:
Playwrights Canada Press, 2011)
"Hearing Hope: Metatheatrical Utopias in Performed Radio Drama" New Theatre Quarterly 101 (Spring 2010): 1-12.
“Re:
Performing Microhistories:
Postmodern Metatheatricality in Canadian Millennial Drama” Re: Reading the Postmodern Ed.
Robert Stacey (Ottawa: U of Ottawa P, 2010) 249-268.
“Kneading You: Performative
Meta-Auto/Biography in Perfect
Pie” Theatre
Research in Canada 31.1
(Spring 2010): 57-75.
"Portrait of the Artist as Artist: A Celebration of Autobiography" Canadian Theatre Review 141 (Winter 2010): 50-54.
“Performing
Outside The Box” Canadian Theatre Review 137
(Winter 2009) 61-67. Co-authored with Laura Levin, Marlis
Schweitzer, Kim
Solga and Belarie Zatzman
"The
Notebook and the Gun: Performative Witnessing in Goodness" English Studies in Canada 34.4 (December 2008)
"Spatial Ambiguity and the Early Modern Postmodern in King Lear" Drama and the Postmodern: Assessing the Limits of Metatheatre. ed. Daniel Keith Jernigan (Youngstown, NY: Cambria P, 2008) 23-44.
“Singular
Impressions: Metatheatre on Renaissance Celebrities and Corpses” Studies
in Theatre and Performance 27:2
(Summer 2007) 137-153.
“Meta-enunciative
Properties of Dramatic Dialogue: A New
View of Metatheatre and the Work of Sławomir Świontek” Journal
of Dramatic Theory and Criticism 21:1 (Fall 2006)115-128.
Translation:
Excerpts from Le Dialogue Dramatique et le
Metathéâtre by
Sławomir
Świontek Journal
of Dramatic Theory and
Criticism 21:1
(Fall 2006)129-144.
“Striding
Along the Mommy Track” University Affairs (May
2006)
Co-authored with Marlis Schweitzer. 22-25.
"Metatheatre
and Authentication through Metonymic Compression in John Mighton's Possible Worlds" Theatre Journal 58:1 (March 2006)
73-93.
"Herodotus
in the
Labyrinth: REED in Hypertext." REED
in Review. eds. Audrey
Douglas and Sally-Beth MacLean. Studies in Early English Drama Series.
(Toronto:
U of Toronto P, 2006) 200-215.
***Various book reviews and performance reviews for Theatre Journal, Theatre Survey, Shakespeare Bulletin, Theatre Research in Canada and Journal of the Association for Research
on Mothering.
Editorial:
Views
and Reviews Co-editor for Canadian
Theatre Review -- issue
142 (Spring 2010) to present.
Canadian Theatre Review 150: Manifestos (Spring 2012) Co-edited with Natalie Alvarez
Canadian Theatre Review 148: Artists and Communities (Fall 2011) Co-edited with Julie Salverson and Kim Renders
Canadian
Theatre Review 131: Science,
Technology and Theatre.
(Summer 2007)
updated 6 July 2011