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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: 

IĚýam a feminist scholar and teacher specialising in QuĂ©bec drama and theatre.ĚýMy 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)?ĚýSuch 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., McGillĚý

Selected publications: 

Books

.ĚýGilbert David (dir.), avec la collaboration de HervĂ© Guay, HĂ©lène Jacques et Yves Jubinville, (Les Presses deĚýl'UniversitĂ© de MontrĂ©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.

Ěý(University of Toronto Press, 2011)
French Translation: De l’Expo 67 Ă  CĂ©line Dion. Essai sur la performance national.Ěý(Nota Bene, 2017)

Ěýwith 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.

Ěý(Playwrights Canada Press, 2014)

, vol. 4,ĚýNew 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.Ěý

“” Scapegoat Carnivale’s Tragic Trilogy, co-authored with Lynn Kozak (McGill-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 théâtreĚý6 (Trimestre 1 : 2021).

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

“” Revolt/Compassion: Six Scripts for Contemporary Performance by Michael Springate (Guernica, 2019).

“,” Performance Studies in Canada, edited byĚýLaura Levin and Marlis Schweitzer (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2017): 262-84.

“,” Interview with Nathalie Claude,ĚýQueer/ Play: Contemporary Queer Canadian Women’s PerformanceĚýand Plays,Ěýedited by Moynan King. (Playwrights Canada Press, 2017).

“” Journal of Eastern Townships Studies/Revue d’études des Cantons-de-l’Est 46 (Fall 2016).

",” Ireland and Quebec: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on History, Culture and Society, edited byĚýMargaret Kelleher and Michael Kenneally (Four Courts Press, 2016): 227-42.

“.” Cirque Global: QuĂ©bec's Expanding Circus BoundariesĚý(revised and updated English-language version of Les corps multiples du Cirque du Soleil),Ěýedited by Charles Batson and Louis Patrick Leroux (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2016):Ěý122-139.

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 QuĂ©bec theatre project, I’ve produced two series of professional staged-readingsĚýof 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 théâtre d’aujourd’hui in October and November 2022.

Publication files: 
PDF icon hurley_changing_states.pdf
PDF icon hurley_occupying_the_object.pdf
Awards, honours, and fellowships: 

  • Research Fellow, McGill Institute for the Study of Canada, 2020-2022

  • Member of the College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists of the Royal Society of Canada,Ěý2015-2022

  • Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Quebec Studies, SUNY-Plattsburgh, Winter 2016

  • Louis Dudek Award for Excellence in Teaching,Ěý2015

  • Visiting Scholar, Centro de Estudos de Teatro, Universidade de Lisboa, December 2014

  • Visiting Fellow, Queen Mary University of London, Department of Drama, June 2012

  • ATHE Essay in Criticism Award (with Jennifer Harvie), 2000.

  • Book Prizes (for National Performance)
    Prix du meilleur ouvrage sur le théâtre québécois, prix trienniel de la Société québécoise d’études théâtrales, pour la période de 2011 à 2013, 2014
    Pierre Savard Award, International Council for Canadian Studies, 2011-2012
    AnnĚýSaddlemyer Award, Canadian Association for Theatre Research, 2011

  • SSHRC Research Grants: 2008-2011; 2015-17; 2018-2023

Research Group Memberships:

  • Membre rĂ©gulière du Centre de recherche interuniversitaire sur la littĂ©rature et la culture quĂ©bĂ©coises ()
  • Centre de recherche interdisciplinaire en Ă©tudes montrĂ©alaises (CRIEM)/Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Montreal (CIRM), Ď㽶ĘÓƵ, 2013-Present
Taught previously at: 

University of British Columbia, Vancouver
Brown University, Providence

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