Janet Hill
English Language and Literature BA Hons, (University of Sheffield, UK); MA, PhD (Dalhousie University)
Emeritus Professor of English, St Mary’s University.
Selected Publications:
Monograph: Stages and Playgoers: Guild Plays to Shakespeare McGill Queen’s UP, 2002;
Chapter: ‘Performing Female Age in Shakespeare’s Plays’ in Staging Age: The Performance of Age in Theatre, Dance, and Film eds. V. Lipscomb and L. Marshall NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010
Research interests:
Women and age in renaissance drama; Staging in English medieval to late renaissance plays: In-Yer–Face; Verbatim theatre; Audience address in popular traditions
Teaching:
Shakespeare’s tragedies and histories; Shakespeare’ Contemporaries; History of drama; Contemporary plays by women; American Drama; In-Yer-Face and After: British theatre from 1990
Awards:
Association of Atlantic Universities Distinguished Teacher Award, 2004.
Fr. William A. Stewart, S.J. Medal for Excellence In Teaching, St Mary’s University, 2003