Joint PhD in Literary Studies / Theatre Studies in English

Graduate Faculty

Ric Knowles, BA, MA, PhD (Toronto).  

Professor (1992).

E-mail: rknowles@uoguelph.ca

Research Interests

Canadian drama and theatre; cultural studies; early modern drama in England; Shakespeare, Modern Drama.

Books

• Staging Coyote's Drama: An Anthology of First Nations Drama in English. Co-edited with Monique Mojica. Playwrights Canada, 2002.


• The Theatre of Form and the Production of Meaning: Contemporary Canadian Dramaturgies. Toronto: ECW P, 1999.


• Ed. Theatre in Atlantic Canada. Mount Allison U: 1988.

Selected recent articles

Articles in American Review of Canadian Studies, Atlantis, Anglistik, Australasian Drama Studies, Brick, The Canadian Journal of Drama and Theatre, The Elizabethan Theatre, Canadian Drama, Canadian Theatre Review, Dalhousie Review, English Studies in Canada, Essays on Canadian Writing, Essays in Theatre, Gestos, Journal of Canadian Studies, Modern Drama, New Maritimes, Shakespeare Quarterly, Shakespeare Studies, Theatre History in Canada, Theatre History Studies, Theatre Journal, Theatre Research International, Theatre Studies, University of Toronto Quarterly, The Upstart Crow, and chapters in several books, including: Shakespeare, Theory, Performance, ed. Bulman (Routledge, 1996); The Performance Text, ed. Peitropaolo (Legas, 1999); Siting the Other, ed. Maufort and Bellarsi (Peter Lang, 2001); Approaches to Teaching Renaissance Drama, ed. Bamford and Leggatt (MLA, 2002); Contemporary Canadian Theatre and Drama - At Home and Abroad, ed. Grace and Glaap (Talonbooks, 2002); Crucible of Cultures, ed. Maufort and Bellarsi (Peter Lang 2002); Shakespeare in Canada, ed. Brydon and Makaryk (Univ. of Toronto Press, 2002); Shakespeare: The Histories, ed. Dutton and Howard (Blackwell's, 2002).

Professional activities

Professor Knowles is a director, dramaturge, and playwright, editor of Modern Drama, an editor of Canadian Theatre Review, and a member of the editorial boards of Essays in Theatre/Études théâtrales and Canadian Literature.

Awards

The Ann Saddlemyer Prize for Outstanding Book on Canadian Drama and Theatre (2001).
Winner (on three occasions) of the annual Richard Plant Prize for outstanding essay on Canadian drama and theatre.