Theatre

Adam Marcinkowski

Office: BAC 422
Email: adam.marcinkowski@acadiau.ca
Education: BA (Toronto), MA/PhD (York)

Biography:  Adam Marcinkowski is a lecturer/course instructor who specializes in Theatre History, Romanticism, and Eighteenth-Century Literature. He has taught at multiple Canadian Universities, including York, Toronto Metropolitan, Mount Allison, and Wilfrid Laurier. His research focuses on the interrelated histories of emotions, aesthetics, rhetoric, and performance. He is currently working on two book-length projects. The first excavates the Romantic figure of the sublime actor, identifying how this character emerged alongside the rise of the commercial theatre. It argues that the sublime actor answered antitheatrical dismissals of the actor’s art by modelling the ideal worker under emotional capitalism. The second responds to Joseph North’s call to renew the liberatory possibilities of past approaches to literary criticism by reassessing how Walter Pater’s aesthetic approach to of Shakespeare’s plays challenged conservative Victorian practices of criticism and performance.

Teaching: THEA 3883 Modern Drama; THEA 4843 Theatre Ideas II