| Name | Graduated | Dissertation | Current Employment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Matt Jones | 2020 |
The Shock and Awe of the Real: Political Performance and the War on Terror |
Assistant Professor (LTF), School of Professional Communication, The Creative School, Toronto Metropolitan University |
| NazLi Akhtari | 2021 | Diasporic Constellations: Performing on the Periphery of the Archives | Assistant Professor (CLTA), English and Drama, University of Toronto Mississauga |
| Cameron Crookston | 2019 | Yesterday’s News: Drag’s Performance of an Affective Queer Past | Lecturer, Cultural Studies, Okanagan Campus, UBC |
| Marjan Moosavi | 2019 | Socio-Cultural Interventionism on the Iranian Stage: Themes and Aesthetics | Full-time Lecturer, Roshan Institute for Persian Studies at the University of Maryland |
| Kelsey Jacobson | 2018 | Locating the Real in Contemporary Canadian Performance | Assistant Professor, Dan School of Drama and Music at Queen’s University |
| Isabel Stowell-Kaplan | 2017 | They Did the Police in Different Voices: Representations of the Policeman and Private Detective in Victorian Drama, Theatre and Performance |
Marie Curie Research Fellow, Department of Theatre, University of Bristol, UK |
|
Art Babayants |
2016 |
Investigating the phenomenon of multilingual acting |
Assistant Professor, Departments of Music and Theatre, Bishop's University, Sherbrooke, Quebec |
|
Seika Boye |
2016 |
Looking for Social Dance in Toronto’s Black Population at Mid-century: A Historiography |
Lecturer, CDTPS, Director of the Institute for Dance Studies |
|
Jenn Cole |
2016 | Hysteria: Potential Dramaturgies Toward a Portrait of Ambiguity | Assistant Professor in Gender and Women's Studies at Trent University |
|
Sasha Kovacs |
2016 | “I may act till the world grows wild and tense”: The Performances of E. Pauline Johnson Tekahionwake |
Assistant Professor, University of Victoria Theatre |
|
Shelley Liebembuk |
2016 | The Choteadora’s Body in Performance: Carmelita Tropicana and the Intersectional Strategy of Choteo |
Assistant Professor, University of Fraser Valley |
|
Jacqueline Taucar |
2016 | Acting (Outside) the Multicultural Script in Toronto’s Ethno-cultural Festivals |
Instructor, Brock University |
|
Justin Blum |
2015 | Melodrama, Monstrosity and Modernity: The Theatrical Histories of Jack the Ripper |
Assistant Professor, University of Lethbridge |
| Heather Fitzsimmons Frey | 2015 |
Victorian Girls and At-Home Theatricals: Performing and Playing with Possible Futures |
Assistant Professor, Arts & Cultural Management, MacEwan University |
|
Paul Babiak |
2015 | Slapstick and Knockabout: Violence and Laughter in 19th-Century Theatre and Early Film |
Fight choreographer and movement coach |
|
James Ashby |
2015 | From the Inside Out, from the Outside In: Devising in Canadian Puppet Theatre |
Sessional Lecturer, CDTPS, University of Toronto |
|
Chima Osakwe |
2014 | Revolutionary Drama in Postcolonial Nigeria: The Theatre of Femi Osofisan |
Visiting Assistant Professor at William and Mary, English and Africana Studies |
|
Aida Jordao |
2014 | Iñes de Castro in Theatre and Film: A Feminist Exhumation of the Dead Queen |
Sessional Instructor at York University (Portuguese) and U of T |
|
Kathy Chung |
2014 | Getting it Straight: Ambivalent Misalignment and the Kinship Idiom in the Drama of Sharon Pollock |
Research Associate at U of T Digital Humanities English Drama |
|
Courtney Cauthon |
2014 | Moving Towards Thought: Theatricality, Technology, and the Theatre |
Lecturer, Department of Theatre, University of Denver |
|
Mark Turner |
2013 | Dissenting Shadows: A History of Film Policy and Production in Newfoundland and Labrador, 1933-1997 |
Manager of Archives & Media Literacy for the Tradition & Transition Among the Labrador Inuit Research Partnership |
|
Michelle MacArthur |
2013 | Re-viewing Reception: Criticism of Feminist Theatre in Montreal and Toronto, 1976 to the Present |
Assistant Professor, School of Dramatic Art Windsor University |
|
Chris Jackman |
2013 | Disciplined Mind: Implicit Cognition in Devised Performance |
Academic Chair of Arts & Design, Centennial College |
|
Paul Halferty |
2013 | Political Stages: Gay Theatre in Toronto, 1967-1985 |
Assistant Professor, University College Dublin |
|
Alysse Rich |
2012 | Re-configuring the Chorus: Adaptations of the Greek Tragic Chorus since WWII |
Principal of Children's Jewish Studies Program at Danforth Jewish Circle, Sessional Instructor at Centennial College |
|
Keren Zaiontz |
2011 | The Stagehands of Subversive Spaces: Site-specific Performance and Audience Labour |
Assistant Professor, Queens University Film and Media |
|
Nenad Jovanovic |
2011 | Brechtian Cinemas: Montage and Theatricality in Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet, Peter Watkins and Lars von Trier |
Assistant Professor, Wright State University Ohio |
|
James McKinnon |
2010 | The Dramaturgy of Appropriation: How Canadian Playwrights Use and Abuse Shakespeare and Chekhov |
Tutor, Quest University in BC |
|
Diana Manole |
2010 | Poetics of Denial: Expressions of National Identity and Imagined Exile in English-Canadian and Romanian Dramas |
Adjunct faculty, Theatre and English at Trent University |
| Julie Burelle | 2008 | Encounters on Contested Lands: Indigenous Performances of Sovereignty and Nationhood in Quebec | Associate Professor Department of Theatre and Dance University of California, San Diego / University of California, Irvine |