Marlis Schweitzer
| Degrees: | Ph.D. University of Toronto, M.A. University of Toronto, B.A. (History) University of Victoria, B.F.A. (Theatre) University of Toronto
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| Current Position: | Associate Professor, Department of Theatre
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| Recent Publications: | When Broadway was the Runway: Theater, Fashion, and American Culture. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009. Testimonial Advertising in the American Marketplace: Emulation, Identity, Community. Co-edited with Marina Moskowitz. New York: Palgrave MacMillan Press, 2009.
Special issue on “Performing Publics” with Laura Levin, Richard Gough, and Melanie Bennett, Performance Research 16.2 (May 2011).
Special issue, with Laura Levin, on “Celebrity Culture” for Canadian Theatre Review 141 (Winter 2010).
“‘Darn That Merry Widow Hat’: The On- and Offstage Life of a Theatrical Commodity, Circa 1907-1908.” Theatre Survey 50.2 (November 2009): 189-221.
“Patriotic Acts of Consumption: Lucile (Lady Duff Gordon) and the Vaudeville Fashion Show Craze.” Theatre Journal (Dec. 2008): 585-608.
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Courses taught recently:
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THEA 3260: Highbrow/Lowbrow: Cultural Hierarchy and Popular Performance, THEA 4360: The Musical Theatre, THST 5020: Performance & Culture, THST 6100: Theatre Research & Methodology |
| Research Interests: | transnational commodity culture, history of fashion and beauty culture, history of advertising, history of consumption, celebrity culture, commercial Broadway theatre, gender and performance
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| Awards/Grants: | 2009-12: SSHRC (Standard Research Grant); 2010-11: Folger Shakespeare Library Short-term Fellowship; 2009-10: Kluge Fellowship, John W. Kluge Center, Library of Congress |
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