Erin Hurley
Quebecois theatre and cultural performance; national performatives; theatre historiography; performance studies; dramatic theory; feminist and LGBTQ2IAS+ theatre
I听am a feminist scholar and teacher specialising in Qu茅bec drama and theatre.听My research asks: How does theatre 鈥� as an art, a practice, and a space 鈥� 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)?听Such questions have led me to build up additional expertise in affect theory, dramatic and performance theory, creative process, and minority-language cultural production.
Ph.D., City University of New York
M.A., Brown University
Honours B.A., McGill听
Books
.听Gilbert David (dir.), avec la collaboration de Herv茅 Guay, H茅l猫ne Jacques et Yves Jubinville, (Les Presses de听l'Universit茅 de Montr茅al, 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.
听(University of Toronto Press, 2011)
French Translation: De l鈥橢xpo 67 脿 C茅line Dion. Essai sur la performance national.听(Nota Bene, 2017)
听with a foreword by Anne Bogart (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010)
Edited Volumes
鈥�,鈥�, L鈥橢xtension: 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.
听(Playwrights Canada Press, 2014)
, vol. 4,听New Essays on Canadian Theatre, general editor Ric Knowles (Playwrights Canada Press, 2014)
Articles and Book Chapters
鈥�,鈥� Humanities and Human Flourishing: Theatre and Performance Studies, edited by Harvey Young and James Pawelski (Oxford UP, 2023): 154-77.听
鈥溾�� Scapegoat Carnivale鈥檚 Tragic Trilogy, co-authored with Lynn Kozak (McGill-Queen鈥檚 UP, 2023): 1-8.
鈥溾�� Canadian Performance Documents and Debates: A Sourcebook, edited by Allana Lindgren, Glen Nichols, and Tony Vickery (University of Alberta Press, 2022): 575-87.
芦,禄 translated by Sylvain Lavoie. Revue d鈥檋istoriographie du th茅芒tre听6 (Trimestre 1鈥�: 2021).
鈥淧erforming Objects and declensions of subjectivity in Montreal female artists solo performances.鈥� Theatre Annual 72 (2019): 57-75.
鈥溾�� Revolt/Compassion: Six Scripts for Contemporary Performance by Michael Springate (Guernica, 2019).
鈥�,鈥� Performance Studies in Canada, edited by听Laura Levin and Marlis Schweitzer (McGill-Queen鈥檚 University Press, 2017): 262-84.
鈥�,鈥� Interview with Nathalie Claude,听Queer/ Play: Contemporary Queer Canadian Women鈥檚 Performance听and Plays,听edited by Moynan King. (Playwrights Canada Press, 2017).
鈥溾�� Journal of Eastern Townships Studies/Revue d鈥櫭﹖udes des Cantons-de-l鈥橢st 46 (Fall 2016).
",鈥� Ireland and Quebec: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on History, Culture and Society, edited by听Margaret Kelleher and Michael Kenneally (Four Courts Press, 2016): 227-42.
鈥�.鈥� Cirque Global: Qu茅bec's Expanding Circus Boundaries听(revised and updated English-language version of Les corps multiples du Cirque du Soleil),听edited by Charles Batson and Louis Patrick Leroux (McGill-Queen鈥檚 University Press, 2016):听122-139.
Performance and Public Scholarship
Public-facing scholarship and research-creation are increasingly central aspects of my research, especially as it touches minority-language cultural workers and communities. As part of the English-language Qu茅bec theatre project, I鈥檝e produced two series of professional staged-readings听of plays and have collaborated with Dr. Alison Bowie on a . Recently, Laurence Dauphinais drew on my research behind the scenes and my (amateur) performance skills on stage to create her original play, , which played the Centaur Theatre and the Centre du th茅芒tre d鈥檃ujourd鈥檋ui in October and November 2022.
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Research Fellow, 51吃瓜网Institute for the Study of Canada, 2020-2022
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Member of the College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists of the Royal Society of Canada,听2015-2022
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Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Quebec Studies, SUNY-Plattsburgh, Winter 2016
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Louis Dudek Award for Excellence in Teaching,听2015
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Visiting Scholar, Centro de Estudos de Teatro, Universidade de Lisboa, December 2014
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Visiting Fellow, Queen Mary University of London, Department of Drama, June 2012
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ATHE Essay in Criticism Award (with Jennifer Harvie), 2000.
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Book Prizes (for National Performance)
Prix du meilleur ouvrage sur le th茅芒tre qu茅b茅cois, prix trienniel de la Soci茅t茅 qu茅b茅coise d鈥櫭﹖udes th茅芒trales, pour la p茅riode de 2011 脿 2013, 2014
Pierre Savard Award, International Council for Canadian Studies, 2011-2012
Ann听Saddlemyer Award, Canadian Association for Theatre Research, 2011 -
SSHRC Research Grants: 2008-2011; 2015-17; 2018-2023
Research Group Memberships:
- Membre r茅guli猫re du Centre de recherche interuniversitaire sur la litt茅rature et la culture qu茅b茅coises ()
- Centre de recherche interdisciplinaire en 茅tudes montr茅alaises (CRIEM)/Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Montreal (CIRM), 51吃瓜网, 2013-Present
University of British Columbia, Vancouver
Brown University, Providence