Appointment of Jill Carter at the University of Toronto

[Rebecca Biason]

Dear Colleagues:
 
I am very pleased to announce that Dr. Jill Carter has just been appointed  as an Assistant Professor for a three year contractually limited term at the University of Toronto, to teach jointly in the Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies, the Aboriginal Studies Program, and the Transitional Year Program.

Jill brings a strong research background in  the history, theory and practice of indigenous performance and culture, in dramaturgy and theatre creation, as well as broad expertise in teaching.  We are pleased to welcome her back to the Centre, where she earned her MA and PhD—she was also the first recipient of our Alumni Dissertation Award in 2011.
 
Please join me in welcoming Jill to the Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies community!

 
Jill Carter (Anishinaabe/Ashkenazi) is a Toronto-based theatre practitioner and scholar. She has worked as a Performer, Director, Dramaturg, and Acting Instructor. In 2010, she received her Doctorate from the Graduate Centre for Study of Drama (now the Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies) at the University of  Toronto. Her dissertation, which documents the storyweaving methodology, authored by Muriel Miguel and developed by Spiderwoman Theater.
 
In recent years, she has worked with Turtle Gals Performance Ensemble (Assistant Dramaturg and Performer), directed the remount of Monique Mojica's Chocolate Woman Dreams the Milky Way, developmental workshops of Omushkego Cree Water Stories (with Candace Brunette and Erika Iserhoff), the 2014 developmental workshop of Sideshow Freaks and Circus Injuns (with Monique Mojica and LeAnne Howe), and the Canadian premiere of Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue (written and performed by Gloria Miguel) at Native Earth Performing Arts Aki Studio in fall 2014. 
 
Currently, apart from her teaching, theatre work and academic writing, she works with First Story Toronto (formerly the Toronto Native History Project), serves on the editorial board of alt. magazine: cultural diversity and the stage, on the Board-Executive of the Canadian Association for Theatre Research (CATR), and on the Board-Executive Board of the Indigenous Performing Arts Alliance (IPAA).



Stephen Johnson, Director
 Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies
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Professional website:  https://sbjohnson.wordpress.com