Kailin Wright
Ph.D. (University of Toronto)
M.A. (University of Toronto)
B.A. Honours (University of Toronto)
Honours
| 2020-2023 | Jules Lèger Research Scholar in Humanities and Social Sciences. |
| 2020-2023 | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Partnership Grant. Theatre as a Bridge to Empathy and Healing: Learning from Queer Birth Stories. Principal Investigator: Lisa Goldberg. Co-Investigator. |
| 2018-2022 | SSHRC Insight Development Grant. "No Baby, No Future: Performing Pregnancy Loss in Canada." Principal Investigator. |
| 2019, 2021 | Association of Atlantic Universities (AAU) Teaching Award Nominee. |
| 2017 | StFX University Outstanding Teaching Award. |
| 2013-2015 | SSHRC Strategic Knowledge Cluster Grant. Editing Modernism in Canada (EMiC), Principal Investigator: Dean Irvine. Co-applicant. |
Canadian theatre; Canadian literature; social justice; identity; gender; race; Indigenous literatures; political theatre; performance studies; feminism; adaptation; Shakespeare adaptation; film and television adaptation; dystopia; reproductive justice; digital humanities; and children's literature. I am interested in working with Honours and Advanced Major students in any of these areas.
Current Activities: I am actively involved with Theatre Antigonish and I am currently working on a project about the treatment of motherhood and the future in Canadian theatre (funded by a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Insight Development Grant).
Books: Monograph
Political Adaptation in Canadian Theatre. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2020.
No Baby, No Future: Performing Motherhood and Loss in Canada. In progress.
Books: Critical Edition
The God of Gods: A Canadian Play by Carroll Aikins. University of Ottawa Press, Canadian Literature Collection, 2016.
Articles and Book Chapters
“Everyone is Happy!: Performing Adaptation, Irony, and Gender in The Millennial Malcontent.” Voices of a Generation. Ed. Michelle MacArthur. Toronto: Playwrights Canada Press, in press, 2021.
“Untold Stories of Slavery: Performing Pregnancy and Racial Futurity in Beatrice Chancy.” The Other Side(s) of 150: Untold Stories and Critical Approaches to History, Literature, and Identity in Canada. Ed. Linda Morra and Sarah Henzi. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2021.
“The Death of the Mother and Rural Futurity in Still Stands the House.” Rethinking Motherhood. Ed. Karen Bamford and Sheila Rabillard. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, invited and submitted, 2020.
“Performing This is for You, Anna as #MeToo: Sexual Harassment and Performance-Based Activism on a University Campus.” Canadian Theatre Review, forthcoming, 2019.
“Failed Futurity: Performing Abortion in Merrill Denison’s Marsh Hay.” Canadian Literature 232 (2017): 100-116.
“Dispublics: Popular Yet Political Spectatorship in Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiadand Erin Shields’s If We Were Birds.” Theatre Journal 69.2 (2017): 213-34.
“Making Radio, Making History: Merrill Denison’s Alexander Mackenzie.” Past Lives: Performing Canada’s Histories. Ed. Heather Davis-Fisch. Toronto: Playwrights Canada Press, 2017. 189-196.
“Bringing the Text to Life: Editing the Modernist Canadian Play The God of Gods.” Making Canada New: Editing, Modernism, and New Media. Ed. Dean Irvine et. al. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2017. 189-211.
“‘Who’s There?’: Slings & Arrows’ Audience Dynamics.” Shakespeare and Canada: Remembrance of Ourselves. Ed. Irene Makaryk and Kathryn Prince. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2017. 79-95.
“Performing Cultural Crossroads: The Subject-Making Functions of ‘I am’ Declarations in Daniel David Moses’s Almighty Voice and His Wife.” Theatre Research in Canada/Recherches théâtrales au Canada 35.2 (2014): 80-105.
“Politicizing Difference: (Re)Claiming Canadian Theatre History and ‘Les Sauvages’ in Le Théâtre de Neptune en la Nouvelle-France and Sinking Neptune.” Studies in Canadian Literature 38.1 (2013): 8-28.
