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<p>Dear Friends,</p>
<p>I hope you'll bring our graduate program to your students' attention. I'd be happy to respond to any questions.
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<p>With thanks and best wishes,</p>
<p>Erin</p>
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mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black" lang="EN-US">Department of English, McGill University</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black" lang="EN-US">The Department of English of McGill University is now accepting applications to our MA and PhD programs. We welcome
applicants working in Theatre Studies (Early Modern to 21<sup>st</sup> Century), as well as those with interdisciplinary projects that cross Theatre Studies with Cultural Studies and/or English Literary Studies.
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<span lang="EN-US">The English Department at McGill – including <span lang="EN-US">
drama and theatre,</span> English literature, and cultural studies – is an excellent environment to prepare students for dynamic interdisciplinary research. Drama and Theatre faculty members bring diverse approaches to the study of theatre, including Marxist
analysis, critical ethnography, archival research, queer and critical race theory, theatre historiography, feminist methodologies, and affect theory.
</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"" lang="EN-US">Each year the Department of English offers approximately twenty-five semester-long
</span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://www.mcgill.ca/english/graduate/2016-17-courses"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">graduate courses</span></a></span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
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covering a broad range of drama and theatre, English literature, and Cultural Studies. Recent Theatre Studies offerings have included:<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>Transvestism and the Performance of Gender on the 18<sup>th</sup>-Century Stage; 19<sup>th</sup>-century Melodrama; Theatre and Diaspora; Contemporary Tragedy; and Feminist Theatre in North America.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://www.mcgill.ca/english/graduate/handbook/ma"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
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</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"" lang="EN-US">The MA in McGill’s Department of English is a rigorous program of study that can serve either as a culminating academic experience in itself,
or as strong preparation for further study at the doctoral level. <span style="color:black">
Our program, which can be completed in either one or two years, features not only a range of seminars in theatre history, performance theory and dramatic literature, but also complementary courses in Cultural and Literary Studies. Each Master’s student will
have the opportunity to work one-on-one with a faculty member to develop either a thesis or a major research paper.
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<span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://www.mcgill.ca/english/graduate/handbook/phd"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
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"Times New Roman"">PhD Program</span></b></a></span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
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Our doctoral program allows students to train intensively in Theatre Studies, with faculty educated at top programs in Canada, the United States, and the UK. For PhDs, we offer courses in theatre history, performance theory, and dramatic literature, as well
as those in the adjacent fields of Cultural Studies and Literary Studies. <u>Our small, selective PhD cohort ensures close attention by supervisors and clear advising and support structures.</u>
</span><span lang="EN-US">Current and former doctoral students have researched topics including: queer temporality in contemporary Shakespearean performance; the dangerous comedy of 18<sup>th</sup>-Century women playwrights; the home in 20th-century Irish drama;
trauma and modernist drama; place-making in North American cities; and the affective dynamics of space in post-dramatic theatre.
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#0F0F0F" lang="EN-US">The department</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#0F0F0F" lang="EN-US">, located in the historic Arts Building
at the heart of the McGill campus in downtown Montreal, Quebec, is home to a 300-seat proscenim arch theatre and a black-box performance space. It has links with annual contemporary theatre and film festivals as well as with a vibrant multilingual performance
scene. </span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black" lang="EN-US">We offer a competitive
</span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://www.mcgill.ca/english/graduate/handbook/funding"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">funding</span></a></span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:
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package.</span></p>
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color:black" lang="EN-US">Graduate Program Drama and Theatre faculty include:</span></p>
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<li><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://www.mcgill.ca/english/staff/sean-carney"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Sean Carney</span></a></span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black" lang="EN-US">:
Brecht; contemporary English tragedy; comics and the graphic novel</span></li><li><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://www.mcgill.ca/english/staff/erin-hurley"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Erin Hurley</span></a></span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black" lang="EN-US">:
Quebec theatre; performance theory; performance and identity; theatre and feeling
</span></li><li><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://www.mcgill.ca/english/staff/fiona-ritchie"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Fiona Ritchie</span></a></span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black" lang="EN-US">:
Shakespeare; Restoration and 18<sup>th</sup>-Century theatre history; gender and theatre history; Shakespeare and adaptation</span></li><li><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://www.mcgill.ca/english/staff/denis-salter"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Denis Salter:</span></a></span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:
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Canadian drama and theatre; history of Shakespeare in performance; 19<sup>th</sup>-century stage history; cultural pluralism, social activism and the stage</span></li><li><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://www.mcgill.ca/english/staff/katherine-zien"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Katherine Zien</span></a></span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
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t</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"" lang="EN-US">heatre and performance in the Americas (North America, Latin America, and the Caribbean); African diaspora studies; Western hemispheric studies
postcolonial theory; critical race studies; critical ethnography.</span></li></ul>
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"Times New Roman";color:black" lang="EN-US">For more information visit:
</span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.mcgill.ca/english/graduate"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">www.mcgill.ca/english/graduate</span></a></span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:
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<p>Erin Hurley, Professor</p>
<p>Department of English</p>
<p>McGill University</p>
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