Marlis Schweitzer | |
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Spouse | Dan Evans |
Children | 2 |
Academic background | |
Education | BA, BFA., University of Victoria PhD, 2005, University of Toronto |
Thesis | Becoming fashionable: actresses, fashion, and the development of American consumer culture, 1893-1919. (2005) |
Academic work | |
Institutions | York University |
Marlis Erica Schweitzer (born 1975) is a Canadian theatre and performance historian. She is an associate professor and Chair of the Department of Theatre at York University.
Schweitzer and her husband Dan have two children together. [1]
After earning her PhD,Schweitzer accepted the Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania. [2] The following year,Schweitzer was the recipient of the 2007 Richard Plant Award from the Canadian Association for Theatre Research (CATR) for her article "Stepping on Stiletto:Kaleidoscope,CAPP,and Controversy." [3] In 2009,Schweitzer published "When Broadway Was the Runway:Theater,Fashion,and American Culture" which was named Outstanding Academic Title by Choice:Current Reviews for Academic Libraries. [4] The book,published through the University of Pennsylvania Press,examined consumer capitalism and the theater,department store,and fashion industries. [5] [6] The book would also go on to be a Freedley Award Finalist in 2010. [7] During the following academic term,2009–10,Schweitzer accepted a John W. Kluge Fellowship at the Library of Congress. [8] This was followed by a short-term fellowship with the Folger Shakespeare Library. [9]
From 2013 until 2016,Schweitzer was a general editor for Theatre Research in Canada. She left the journal in 2016 to accept a role as President of the Canadian Association for Theatre Research. [10] From 2016 until 2018,Schweitzer served as president of the CATR. [11] In her role as president,Schweitzer co-edited "Performance Studies in Canada" in 2017 with Laura Levin which was published through the McGill–Queen's University Press. [12] This book would earn her the 2018 Patrick O'Neill Award from CATR. [13] She also published "Transatlantic Broadway:The Infrastructural Politics of Global Performance" through Palgrave Macmillan. [14] In her last year as president,she received a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada grant to fund a two-day event supporting Playing with History:A Performance-Based Historiography Symposium. [15] She also launched her own podcast called Scene Change. [16]
In 2019,Schweitzer was elected a Member of the Royal Society of Canada College of New Scholars,Artists and Scientists. [17] She also sat on the Cambridge University Press Prize committee board and was appointed editor of Theatre Survey, a theatre historical journal. [18] As of 2019 [update] ,Schweitzer is Chair of the Department of Theatre at York University. [19]
The following is a list of selected publications: [20]
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