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Erin Hurley

 Erin Hurley
Contact Information
Phone: 
514-398-5530
Email address: 
erin.hurley [at] mcgill.ca
Address: 

Arts 115
McCall MacBain Arts Building
853 Sherbrooke Street West
Montreal, QC H3A 0G5
Canada

Group: 
Faculty Members
Position: 
Professor
Stream: 
Drama and Theatre
Specialization by geographical area: 
Canada
United States
Specialization by time period: 
20th-Century
21st-Century
Area(s): 
Aesthetics
Affect Theory
Archives & Bibliography
Creative Practice & Performance Studies
Identity & Representation
Theatre & Performance
Areas of interest: 

Quebecois theatre and cultural performance; national performatives; theatre historiography; performance studies; dramatic theory; feminist and LGBTQ2IAS+ theatre

Biography: 

Iam a feminist scholar and teacher specialising in Québec drama and theatre.My research asks: How does theatre – as an art, a practice, and a space – manage difference? And this, at the level of performance (e.g., relationship between actor and character), representation (of over- and under-represented groups, because representation matters), and affect (is feeling a bridge into otherness)?Such questions have led me to build up additional expertise in affect theory, dramatic and performance theory, creative process, and minority-language cultural production.

Degree(s): 

Ph.D., City University of New York
M.A., Brown University
Honours B.A., Ŀ;

Selected publications: 

Books

.Gilbert David (dir.), avec la collaboration de Hervé Guay, Hélène Jacques et Yves Jubinville, (Les Presses del'Université de Montréal, 2020). Erin collaborated on all chapters except the introduction and conclusion, contributing material on the history of English-language theatre in Quebec from 1945 to 2015.

(University of Toronto Press, 2011)
French Translation: De l’Expo 67 à Céline Dion. Essai sur la performance national.(Nota Bene, 2017)

with a foreword by Anne Bogart (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010)

Edited Volumes

“,”, L’Extension: recherche & creation, co-edited with Nicole Nolette and Marie-Christine Lesage (2021)
Includes 9 research-creation presentations with paratext developed out of the 2020 CATR-SQET conference.

(Playwrights Canada Press, 2014)

, vol. 4,New Essays on Canadian Theatre, general editor Ric Knowles (Playwrights Canada Press, 2014)

Articles and Book Chapters

“,” Humanities and Human Flourishing: Theatre and Performance Studies, edited by Harvey Young and James Pawelski (Oxford UP, 2023): 154-77.

“” Scapegoat Carnivale’s Tragic Trilogy, co-authored with Lynn Kozak (Ŀ;-Queen’s UP, 2023): 1-8.

“” Canadian Performance Documents and Debates: A Sourcebook, edited by Allana Lindgren, Glen Nichols, and Tony Vickery (University of Alberta Press, 2022): 575-87.

«,» translated by Sylvain Lavoie. Revue d’historiographie du théâtre6 (Trimestre 1 : 2021).

“Performing Objects and declensions of subjectivity in Montreal female artists solo performances.” Theatre Annual 72 (2019): 57-75.

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