Fields of interest of professors — Department of Theatre
Joël BEDDOWS - PhD Graduate Centre for the Study of Drama, University of Toronto
Practical
- Directing and other art forms
- Directing plays in translation
Theoretical
- Franco-Ontarian theatre
- Québécois theatre
- Irish theatre
Annie BRISSET - PhD Semiotics, Études littéraires, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
- Translation theories
- Discourse theories
- Sociology and sociocritique of translation
Douglas CLAYTON - PhD, Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Russian romanticism
- Pushkin
- Chekhov
- Russian theatre since 1895
Margaret CODERRE-WILLIAMS - MFA, Design for the Theatre, University of Victoria
- Set
- Costume and Lighting Design
- Scenic Art
Tibor EGERVARI
Louise FRAPPIER - PhD Études françaises, Université de Montréal
- History of theatrical genres (especially tragedy)
- Early modern French theatre (sixteenth and seventeenth centuries)
- Urban ceremonies (especially royal entries)
- Nineteenth-century Québécois theatre
A.J. Peter FROEHLICH - PhD Graduate Centre for the Study of Drama, University of Toronto
- Directing
- Acting
- Theatre History
Dominique LAFON - Doctorat 3e cycle, Institut d’études théâtrales, Paris III – Sorbonne Nouvelle
- Neo-classical French theatre
- Voltaire's theatre
- Franco-ontarian theatre
- Québécois theatre
- New play development
Irene R. MAKARYK - PhD, English, University of Toronto
- Shakespeare
- Shakespeare’s afterlife
- Soviet avant-garde theatre
- War and culture
- Les Kurbas
- Modernism
Yana MEERZON - PhD Graduate Centre for Study of Drama, University of Toronto
- Theory of drama and performance
- Cultural and interdisciplinary studies
- Russian drama and theatre
Daniel MROZ - PhD in études et pratiques des arts, Université du Québec à Montréal
- Artistic practice:
- Acting and Performance (Movement, Voice, Composition and Interpretation)
- Directing (Devising original performance)
- Traditional Chinese Martial Arts and Physical Culture (wushu and qigong)
- World Music Singing and Contemporary Vocal Music
- Theory:
- Theatre Anthropology, Performance Studies and Ethnoscenology
- Contemporary approaches to performance aesthetics and actor training
Kevin ORR - MFA in Directing, University of British Columbia
- Directing
- Artistic Direction
- Actor and Director training
Kathryn PRINCE - PhD, University of Ottawa
- Shakespeare in performance
- Early modern drama in performance
- Theatre repertories and archives
- Theatre history
- Play
- Directing
José María RUANO DE LA HAZA - PhD, University of London
- Spanish literature
- History of theatre
- Textual criticism
Alvina RUPRECHT - PhD Lettres françaises, University of Ottawa
- Theatre in the francophonie
- Theatre anthropology
- Postcolonial and intercultural theory
- Theatre criticism
Sylvain SCHRYBURT - PhD Études françaises, Université de Montréal
- Theatre festivals
- History of directing
- Québécois theatre
- Theatre archives
David STAINES - PhD, Harvard University
- Canadian literature
- Medieval literature
- Victorian poetry