Laura Levin

Professor Levin is a performance theorist whose research focuses on contemporary theatre and performance art, performing gender and sexuality, site-specific and urban performance, and intermediality in performance.  She is Editor-in-Chief of Canadian Theatre Review and has edited a number of collections: an issue of Theatre Research in Canada on Space and Subjectivity in Performance; a CTR issue on Performance Art; an issue of Performance Research on Performing Publics, Conversations Across Borders (Seagull Books, 2011); and Theatre and Performance in Toronto (Playwrights Canada Press, 2011). She is currently completing a book on camouflage in contemporary performance (to be published by Palgrave). Her current research, which focuses on gender, performance, and space, appears in several edited volumes including Judith Thompson(ed. Ric Knowles) and Space and the Geographies of Canadian Theatre (ed. Michael McKinnie), and Performance and the City (eds. Kim Solga, DJ Hopkins, and Shelley Orr). She has worked as a director and dramaturg on a number of productions in North America and several practice-based research projects that investigate intersections of performance, geography, and digital technologies. In 2008, Professor Levin was awarded a SSHRC Standard Grant for ?The Canadian Performance Studies Project,? the first major research study to theorize and map the field of performance studies as it has emerged in Canada. As part of this project, she chaired the annual Performance Studies International conference, which was held in Canada for the first time in June 2010. She recently received the 2011-2012 York-Massey Fellowship, which allowed her to conduct the final phase of her SSHRC project at U of T?s Massey College.

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