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Publications

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Works

  • Blair, Kelsey, Kelsey Jacobson, Scott Mealey, and Jenny Salisbury. "From Site to Self: Immersion, Audience Research, and Polyvocality." Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, vol. 36, no. 1, 2021, pp. 75-93. 

  • Jacobson, Kelsey and Kelsey Blair. “Theatre audience etiquette and norms have always shifted with the times.” The Conversation. 21 November 2021. https://theconversation.com/theatre-audience-etiquette-and-norms-have-always-shifted-with-the-times-169834. 

  • Jacobson, Kelsey, Scott Mealey, and Jenny Salisbury. "Disruptive Presence: Twenty-First-Century Shifts in Spectatorship and Audience Research." Performance Matters, vol. 5, no. 2, 2019, pp. 1-5. 

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Dr. Kelsey Jacobson

  • Real-Ish: Audiences, Feeling, and the Production of Realness in Contemporary Performance. McGill-Queen's University Press, 2023. 

  • "The Pervasive Real: Virtual Co-Presence in Jordan Tannahill’s YouTube Play rihannaboi95." Contemporary Theatre Review, vol. 32, no. 2, 2022, pp. 191-205. 

  • "Hashtag networks, “live” musicals, and the social media spectator: Digital theatre audience research methods." Impacting Theatre Audiences: Methods for Studying Change, vol. 1, 2022, pp. 64-75. 

  • "PXR2020: Re-Seeing the Possibilities of Theatre in Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Reality." Canadian Theatre Review, vol. 189, 2022, pp. 73-75. Co-authored with Stephanie Fung and Jordan Pike.

  • "Theatre Companies Are Pushing Storytelling Boundaries with Online Audiences Amid COVID-19." The Conversation, vol. 22, 2020.

  • "Introduction: A Situated, Ethical, Imaginative Doing and Being in the Encounter of Research." Global Youth Citizenry and Radical Hope: Enacting Community-Engaged Research through Performative Methodologies, vol. 10, 2020, pp. 1-20. Co-authored with Kathleen Gallagher and Dirk J. Rodricks.

  • "Soundings: An Exhibition in Five Acts and the Ka’tarohkwi Festival as Participatory Calls for Decolonization." Canadian Theatre Review, vol. 182, 2020, pp. 87-91. 

  • "A Method of Mis/Understanding: Translation Gaps, Metaphoric Truths, and Reflexive Methodologies." Global Youth Citizenry and Radical Hope: Enacting Community-Engaged Research through Performative Methodologies, vol. 10, 2020, pp. 135-154.

  • "Through the Fictive to the Real (ish): Affective Time and the Representation of “Real Newfoundland” in Rising Tide Theatre’s Trinity Pageant." Theatre Research in Canada, vol. 39, no. 1, 2018, pp. 42-57.

  • Feeling Real: Affective Dimensions of Reality in Contemporary Canadian Performance. University of Toronto (Canada), 2018. 

  • "Good Fence’s Scripted Truths: Cultivating Dialogue in Post-Real Times." Canadian Theatre Review, vol. 175, 2018, pp. 8-12. 

  • "Accuracy and Ethics, Feelings and Failures: Youth experimenting with documentary practices of performing reality." Theatre Research in Canada, vol. 39, no.1, 2018, pp 59-77.  Co-authored with Kathleen Gallagher and Scott Mealey.

  • "Beyond mimesis to an assemblage of reals in the drama classroom: which reals? Which representational aesthetics? What theatre-building practices? Whose truths?" Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance, vol. 23, no. 1, 2018, pp. 40-55. Co-authored with Kathleen Gallagher.

  • "Really Sell it to Me: Immersive theatre as Ideal Commodity." Etudes, vol. 2, no. 2, 2016, pp. 1-23. 

  • "Review of Shattering Hamlet's Mirror: Theatre and Reality, by Marvin Carlson." Performance Matters, vol. 2, no. 2, 2016, pp. 164-165. 

  • "(Dis) Embodied Authority in White Rabbit, Red Rabbit." Canadian Theatre Review 158.158 (2014): 76-80. 

Dr. Scott Mealey

  • “Distance, disruption, and de-hierarchisation: negotiating care in the virtual space of Zoom theatre,” Research in Drama Education, 2024, pp. 24-42. Co-authored with Michelle MacArthur and Kimberley McLeod.

  • “(Ac)counting for Change: Artist-friendly, Quantitative Approaches for Recognizing and Contextualizing Shifts in Spectatorial Thinking,” Impacting Audiences: Methods for Studying Change, edited by Dani Snyder-Young and Matt Omasta, Routledge, 2022, pp. 173-188.

  • "Power, Perception, and Professionalism: An Empirical Study of Digital Theatre Criticism in Canada." Contemporary Theatre Review 31.4 (2021): 455-470. Co-authored with Michelle MacArthur and Signy Lynch.

  • Recollection of an Audience: Style, Experience, and Change in the Study of Theatre Spectatorship. Diss. 2020. 

  • "Performative Measures: An Exploration of Cross-Pollinating Drama and Quantitative Research." Global Youth Citizenry and Radical Hope: Enacting Community-Engaged Research through Performative Methodologies (2020): 219-243. 

  • "Accuracy and Ethics, Feelings and Failures: Youth experimenting with documentary practices of performing reality." Theatre Research in Canada vol. 39, no.1, 2018, pp. 59-77. Co-authored with Kathleen Gallagher and Kelsey Jacobson.

  • "Staging ourselves: Towards a theory of relationality, possibility, and creative youth selfhood." Creativity in Theatre: Theory and Action in Theatre/Drama Education, vol. 2, 2018, pp. 133-152. Co-authored with Kathleen Gallagher.

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Dr. Signy Lynch

  • "Casting Audiences: How Theatre Passe Muraille’s ‘Black Out Nights’ Challenge Conventional Approaches to Audience." Canadian Theatre Review 193 (2023): 45-48. 

  • “Critical Disengagement: The Epistemic and White Supremacist Violence of Theatre Criticism in Canada and the USA.” New Theatre Quarterly, vol. 39, no. 1, 2023, pp. 34–49, doi:10.1017/S0266464X22000355. Co-authored with Michelle MacArthur.

  • "Performing at Home in the Pandemic: Boca del Lupo’s Plays2Perform@ Home Collection." Canadian Theatre Review 191 (2022): 82-86. 

  • "The gaze turned inward: A reflexive autoethnographic approach to theatre research." Impacting Theatre Audiences. Routledge, (2022): 88-99. 

  • "Closing the Distance: Intermediality, Immediacy, and Intercultural Affect in Tetsuro Shigematsu’s Empire of the Son." Theatre Research in Canada 43.2 (2022): 191-205. 

  • "A Round Table Conversation on the State of Hiring and Labour in Theatre and Performance Studies in Canada." Canadian Theatre Review 190 (2022): 77-80. Co-authored with Benjamin Gillespie and Hannah Rackow.

  • "A Lesson in Failure: Vivek Shraya’s How to Fail as a Popstar." Canadian Theatre Review 185 (2021): 80-82. 

  • "Intercultural Relations: Direct Audience Address in Contemporary Theatre in Canada." (2021). PhD Dissertation. York University.

  • "Power, Perception, and Professionalism: An Empirical Study of Digital Theatre Criticism in Canada." Contemporary Theatre Review 31.4 (2021): 455-470. Co-authored with Michelle MacArthur and Scott Mealey.

  • "Introduction: Theatre After the Explosion." Canadian Theatre Review 186 (2021): 5-7. Co-authored with Thea Fitz-James.

  • Journal issue edited: "Theatre After the Explosion.” Canadian Theatre Review, vol. 186, Spring 2021, p. 1-99. Co-edited with Thea Fitz-James.

  • "In Search of an Ignorant Critic." Canadian Theatre Review 175 (2018): 80-82.

Dr. Kelsey Blair

  • Sport and Performance in the Twenty-first Century. Taylor & Francis, 2022. 

  • "'I am Invictus': Parasport, the Invictus Games, and Disability Performance in Canada." Theatre Research in Canada 43.1 (2022): 96-114. Co-authored with Megan Johnson.

  • "The Believability of Basketball: The Multiple Bodies of the Female Performer in The Tall Girls." Sports Plays. Routledge, 2021. 99-114. 

  • "Empty gestures: Performative utterances and allyship." Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism 35.2 (2021): 53-73. 

  • "The politics of performing the butterfly stroke: Yusra Mardini and the 2016 Olympic Refugee Team." Sporting Performances. Routledge, 2020. 96-110. 

  • "The Power to Die: Liveliness, Minor Agency, and Shakespeare’s Female Characters." Shakespeare’s Things. Routledge, 2019. 123-133.

  • "‘Memory in two voices: an aesthetics of care in performance groups for older adults." Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance 24.1 (2019): 67-71.

  • "Raising awareness and addressing elder abuse in the LGBT community: An intergenerational arts project." Language and Literacy 20.3 (2018): 46-66. Co-authored with Claire Robson, Gloria Guzman, and Jen Marchbank.

  • "Memory, Milestones, and Monuments: A Peripatetic Exploration of the West Side of UBC Campus." Canadian Theatre Review 174 (2018): 31-37. Co-authored with Sandra Chamberlain-Snider, Katrina Dunn, and Julia Henderson.

  • "The 2012 Olympic badminton scandal: Match-fixing, code of conduct documents, and women’s sport." The International Journal of the History of Sport 35.2-3 (2018): 264-276. 

  • "Screen and roll: transmissions of embodied knowledge through Canadian women’s basketball history." Canadian Theatre Review 169 (2017): 20-25. 

  • "Broomsticks and barricades: Performance, empowerment, and feeling in Wicked and Les Misérables." Studies in Musical Theatre 10.1 (2016): 55-67. 

  • "Hockey sticks and heartstrings: The men’s gold medal hockey game and the affective legacy of the 2010 Olympic Games." Canadian Theatre Review 164 (2015): 83-88. 

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Dr. Jenny Salisbury

  • "Out at School: Imagining a Slow Ethic of Care in Research-Based Theater." Qualitative Inquiry 29.2 (2023): 323-331. Co-authored with Bishop Owis and Pamela Baer.

  • "From Stage to Aural Streaming: Adaptation through a Slow Ethic of Care." Canadian Theatre Review 192 (2022): 32-36. Co-authored with Pamela Baer.

  • "LGBTQ Family Advocacy at School." Penn GSE Perspectives on Urban Education 18.2 (2021): n2. Co-authored with Tara Goldstein, Pam Baer, Austen Koecher, Benjamin Lee Hicks, Kate Reid, Bishop Otis, Edil Gamal and Ty Walkland.

  • "This Is Our Family: A Verbatim Theatre Piece." Our Children Are Your Students: LGBTQ Families Speak Out (2021): 27. Co-authored with Tara Goldstein and Pam Baer.

  • "Pairing verbatim theatre and theatre of the oppressed to provoke startling empathy." The Educational Forum. Vol. 83. No. 4. Routledge, 2019. Co-authored with Pamela Baer and Tara Goldstein.

  • "Inviting startling empathy through performed ethnography: A queer (ed) collective research project." The Methodological Dilemma Revisited. Routledge, 2018. 171-191. Co-authored with Tara Goldstein, Pam Baer, Austen Koecher, Benjamin Lee Hicks, and Kate Reid.

  • "Resistant and Elusive Creativity in Globalized Education." Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy 11, no. 2 (2014): 179-184. 

  • "Political Acts and Public Voices: Paying Time and Attention to The Public Servant." Canadian Theatre Review 166 (2016): 72-77. 

  • "We’re Here Now: Site-specific theatre beyond place in Canadian Jewish Diaspora." Editor: Peter Eckersall Editorial Board: Hayato Kosuge/Takashi Morishita/Yu Homma (2016): 179. 

  • "Thinking a Public University." Theatre Research in Canada 37, no. 1 (2016): 126-128. 

  • "Forum 2: Performance of Labour Thinking a Public University." 

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We would like to thank the University of Toronto, the University of Toronto Mississauga, the University of Toronto Scarborough, the Canadian Association for Theatre Research, the Jackman Humanities Institute, and Queen’s University for their support.

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