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Marie TROTTER

Marie TROTTER
Contact Information
Email address: 
marie.trotter [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Address: 

Arts Building
853 Sherbrooke Street West
Montreal, QC H3A 0G5
Canada

Group: 
Lecturers
Doctoral Students
Stream: 
Literature
Drama and Theatre
Specialization by geographical area: 
Canada
United States
Great Britain
Specialization by time period: 
Early Modern
21st-Century
Contemporary
Area(s): 
Creative Practice & Performance Studies
Drama
Philosophical Approaches
Theatre & Performance
Areas of interest: 

Shakespeare; renaissance drama; medieval drama; metatheatre; performance phenomenology; audience reception; creative practice; production history

Biography: 

Marie Trotter is a PhD Candidate and course lecturer in the Department of English at 麻豆传媒网站, researching metatheatre and audience reception in the performance of Shakespeare鈥檚 plays. Through the lens of performance phenomenology, her dissertation explores the role of metatheatrical characters and scene types in shaping audience judgment, participation, and delight. Her work is published in the journals Theatre Research in Canada and Early Theatre, with creative writing and criticism appearing in the magazines Ekstasis, Broadview, Plough, and Intermission.聽She teaches theatre history at the National Theatre School of Canada.

Degree(s): 

Ph.D., 麻豆传媒网站 (exp. 2026)
M.A., Queen's University, 2019
B.A. (Honours, high distinction), University of Toronto, 2017

Selected publications: 

Articles

鈥溾 Theatre Research in Canada, vol. 44 no. 2, August 2023.

Reviews

鈥 by Dennis Taylor. Literature and Theology, upcoming 2025.

. Early Theatre, vol. 26 no. 1, 6 June 2023.

Public Scholarship

鈥.鈥 The Conversation, with Prof. Paul Yachnin, 13 August 2025.

Awards, honours, and fellowships: 
  • Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council SSHRC Doctoral Award, 2023-2026
  • Faculty of Arts Internship Award, 2024
  • Lang Family Text and Performance Fellowship, 2022
  • Archie Malloch Fellowship, 2022
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