R O B I N C. W HITTAKER , P H D C U R R I C U L U M V ITAE A UGUST 2017 [email protected] CURRENT EMPLOYMENT 2011-present Associate Professor, Dramatic Literature and Drama Production Department of English Language and Literature St. Thomas University, Fredericton, New Brunswick, E3B 5G3, Canada CURRENT LEADERSHIP 2012-present Drama Advisor, Drama Concentration Department of English Language and Literature, St. Thomas University 2014-present Artistic Producer and Faculty Advisor Theatre St. Thomas, St. Thomas University 2017-present Vice President, Executive Canadian Association for Theatre Research (CATR) 2016-present Chair, Archival Committee Canadian Association for Theatre Research 2012-present Member, Management Board Theatre Research in Canada / Recherches théatrales au Canada 2012-present Founding Editor and Website Manager STU Reviews: Where Fredericton Follows Theatre 2012-13, 16 Co-Organizer (with Dr. Brad Cross) New York Experiential Learning Trip, St. Thomas University 1/24 Dr. Robin C. Whittaker 2/24 EDUCATION June 2010 Doctor of Philosophy Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies, University of Toronto (formerly the Graduate Centre for Study of Drama) Dissertation: “Un/Disciplined Performance: Nonprofessionalized Theatre in Canada’s Professional Era” Committee: Dr. Bruce Barton (supervisor), Dr. Alan Filewod, Dr. Heather Murray, Dr. Anne Nothof (external) Special Fields Exam: Canadian theatre scholarship, historiography of amateur theatre practices, discourses of professionalization, Bourdieu’s field theory of cultural production, Foucault’s discourse analysis and discipline theory Comprehensive Exam: Critical perspectives on canonical plays (classical to contemporary) June 2003 Master of Arts Department of Drama, University of Alberta Thesis: “Narrativizations and Perversions: Storytelling Structures in the Plays of Sally Clark” Committee: Dr. Robert Appleford and Prof. Kim McCaw (co-supervisors), Dr. Rosalind Kerr June 1999 Bachelor of Arts, Honours Program, English (with Co-op Option); and Bachelor of Arts, General Major, Theatre, Wilfrid Laurier University TEACHING AND RESEARCH • Theatre Histories and Practices • Historiography, Cultural Production, Discipline and Discourse Analysis • Professionalizing and Nonprofessionalizing Practices • Canadian and Modern Theatre • Theatre Criticism • Verbatim Theatre • Mixed Media Performance • Playwriting, New Play Development, Production Dramaturgy • Directing and Acting • Research Methods, Critical Writing, Presentation Skills Dr. Robin C. Whittaker 3/24 GRANTS AND SCHOLARSHIPS (Selected) 2016 STU Conference Travel Grant (for Congress 2016), $800 2015 STU Conference Travel Grant (for Congress 2015), $700 2014-15 STU JOBS Programme Grant (to hire a student: Production Assistant), $2033 2014-15 STU JOBS Programme Grant (to hire a student: Research Assistant), $2033 2014 June STU Research Assistant Grant (Nonprofessionalized Theatre), $500 2014 April STU General Research Grant (Nonprofessionalized Theatre), $2500 2014 STU / Canadian Summer Jobs Program Grant (to hire a student), $3000 2013-14 STU JOBS Programme Grant (to hire a student), $2033 2013 STU Conference Travel Grant (for Congress 2013), $1000 2013 STU / Canadian Summer Jobs Program Grant (to hire a student), $3000 2013 STU Conference Travel Grant (for Congress 2013), $1000 2012-13 STU JOBS Programme Grant (to hire a student), $2392 2012 STU Conference Travel Grant (for Congress 2012), $700 2008-09 Ontario Graduate Scholarship, $15,000 2008 Young Scholars Travel Grant, MANECCS/SACS, $500 2007-08 School of Graduate Studies Travel Grant, $600 2007 Cultural Action and Activism Project Grant, CACS, $300 For conference convening, Theatre Passe Muraille, with Dr. Barry Freeman 2006-07 Ontario Graduate Scholarship, $15,000 2005-06 Ontario Graduate Scholarship, reversion list 2004-05 Ontario Graduate Scholarship, $15,000 2004-07 John A. MacDonald Canadian History Fellowship, $24,000 over 3 years, declined 2000-02 Province of Alberta Graduate Scholarship, $10,000 HONOURS AND AWARDS (Selected) 2012 NotaBle Acts Theatre Festival Playwriting Prize, $125 2010 Robert Lawrence Prize (CATR), awarded For outstanding paper by an emerging scholar at CATR’s annual conference: “Intellectual and Un/Disciplined: Relocating Toronto’s Alumnae Theatre Company, from Philanthropic Theatre to the Original ‘Alternative.’” 2009 Robert Lawrence Prize (CATR), honourable mention For “Toward the Rehistoricization of Contemporary Amateur Theatre Practice” 2009 Ann Saddlemyer Award (CATR), nominee For a scholarly book in either language (for Hot Thespian Action!) 2004-05 Ann Saddlemyer / Brian Parker Award, nominee For outstanding contribution to Graduate Drama Centre life 1997-99 Dean’s Honour Roll (overall average of at least A-) Dr. Robin C. Whittaker 4/24 PUBLICATIONS EDITED BOOKS (Refereed Publications) Whittaker, R. C., ed. Hot Thespian Action! Ten Premiere Plays from Walterdale Playhouse. General Introduction and Critical Introductions by R. C. Whittaker. Edmonton: Athabasca UP, 2008. 569pp. ARTICLES & CHAPTERS (Refereed Publications) Whittaker, R. C. “The Professionalization of a Stage Naturalist, the Making of a Mythmaker: The Theatre Criticism of Urjo Kareda at the University of Toronto’s Varsity Newspaper.” Theatre Research in Canada / Recherches théatrales au Canada 35.2 (winter 2014). 151-68. Whittaker, R. C. “T.R.i.C.s of the Trade: There Are No Macrohistories Here.” Theatre Research in Canada / Reserches théatrales au Canada 35.2 (winter 2014). 250-52. Whittaker, R. C. “The Casting and Makeup of Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies in Canada: A Report on the Discipline by the Numbers (and Letters).” Forum. Theatre Research in Canada / Recherches théatrales au Canada 32.1 (spring 2011). 107-32. [published July 2011] Whittaker, R. C. “Fusing the Nuclear Community: Intercultural Memory, Hiroshima 1945 and the Chronotopic Dramaturgy of Marie Clements’s Burning Vision.” Theatre Research in Canada / Recherches théatrales au Canada 30.1 (spring 2009). 129-51. Whittaker, R. “Postmodern Display: Staging the Mind of Marshall McLuhan.” Theatre Research in Canada / Recherches théatrales au Canada 27.1 (spring 2006). 100-22. REVIEWS & INTERVIEWS (in Refereed Publications) Whittaker, R. C. Review of Jessica Riley’s A Man of Letters: The Selected Dramaturgical Correspondence of Urjo Kareda. In Theatre Research in Canada / Recherches théatrales au Canada. [forthcoming]. Whittaker, R. C. Review of Tony Nardi’s book Two Letters … And Counting. In Theatre Research in Canada / Recherches théatrales au Canada 37.1 (winter 2016). Whittaker, R. C. “Canadian Theatre Quips.” Review of Susan McNicoll’s The Opening Act: Canadian Theatre History 1945-53. In Canadian Literature: A Quarterly of Criticism and Review 221 (Summer 2014). 172. Dr. Robin C. Whittaker 5/24 ARTICLES & CHAPTERS (Non-Refereed Publications) Whittaker, R. C. “Un/Disciplined Re/Collections: Toward an Archeology of Nonprofessionalizing Theatre Practices.” In Canadian Performance Histories and Historiographies. Ed. Heather Davis-Fisch. Playwrights Canada Press. (spring 2017). Whittaker, R. C. “80 Years of New Play Production at Alberta’s ‘Nonprofessionalized’ Theatres.” All Stages Magazine: Theatre in Alberta. Winter 2013. 4-5. Whittaker, R. C. “‘Entirely Free of Any Amateurishness’: Private Training, Public Taste and the Women’s Dramatic Club of University College, Toronto (1905- 21).” Nineteenth-Century Theatre and Film. Special Issue: Amateur Theatre in the Long Nineteenth Century. 38.2 (winter 2011). 51-66. [published winter 2013] Whittaker, R. C. “Ottawa Little Theatre, the ‘Original Regional’: Canada’s Longest-Running English Language Theatre Turns One Hundred.” Canadian Theatre Review 152 (fall 2012). 62-65. Whittaker, R. C. “The Tent and the Tree: On the Performance of Protest.” the dance current. 15.3 (May/June 2012). 45. Whittaker, R. C. “Walterdale Theatre Associates and the In(ter)vention of the Audience.” Canadian Theatre Review 140 (fall 2009). 33-39. Whittaker, R. “Feeling around the Repressed: Performing Uncanny Space in Sally Clark’s Jehanne of the Witches.” Canadian Theatre Review 120 (fall 2004). 5-11. Whittaker, R. “Divine ‘Northern’ Identity: Herman Voaden and the Spirit of Canadian Theatre.” Ed. Anton Wagner. The Worlds of Herman Voaden [online]. March 2003. <www.lib.unb.ca/Texts/Theatre/voaden/default.htm> Whittaker, R. “A Role for Community Theatre Today.” Playhouse: A Newsletter for Walterdale Members & Friends. Walterdale Theatre. May 2002. 3-4. Whittaker, R. “Wilfrid Laurier University.” The Students’ Guide to Canadian Universities. Toronto: Key Porter, 1999. 134-39. REVIEWS & INTERVIEWS (Non-Refereed Publications) Whittaker, R. C., and Barry Freeman. “Fear of Flight, Fear of Fright: Artistic Fraud of Newfoundland and Eight ‘Trans-Canadian’ Playwrights Touch Down at Factory Theatre.” Canadian Theatre Review 142 (summer 2010). 88-90. Dr. Robin C. Whittaker 6/24 Whittaker, R. C. “Blown Speechless into the Raging Dreams of Children in a Violent Age: Theatre Gargantua’s Persistent Creation in Times of ‘Crisis.’” Canadian Theatre Review 135 (summer 2008). 122-24. Whittaker, R. “The Very First Elephant on the Very First Day: Nicholas Billon’s The Elephant Song Trumpets at the Stratford Regime.” Canadian Theatre Review 130 (spring 2007). 122-25. Whittaker, R. “‘Serving the Whole’: An Interview with Ottawa Playwright Peter Froehlich.” Canadian Theatre Review 119 (summer 2004). 85-87. Whittaker, R. “simpL Politics, Simply Art: Karl Valentin, Peter Froehlich, Troubled