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Fiona Ritchie

Fiona Ritchie
Contact Information
Phone: 
514-398-4401
Email address: 
fiona.ritchie [at] mcgill.ca
Address: 

Arts 325
McCall MacBain Arts Building
853 Sherbrooke Street West
Montreal, QC H3A 0G5
Canada

Group: 
Faculty Members
Position: 
Associate Professor
Stream: 
Drama and Theatre
Specialization by geographical area: 
Great Britain
Specialization by time period: 
Early Modern
18th-Century
Area(s): 
Archives & Bibliography
Creative Practice & Performance Studies
Drama
Identity & Representation
Theatre & Performance
Status: 
On Sabbatical
Areas of interest: 

Shakespeare; Restoration and eighteenth-century theatre; gender and theatre history; women and regional theatre in Britain and Ireland, 1642-1832;听emotional contagion in theatre audiences.

Degree(s): 

Ph.D. (King鈥檚 College London)
B.A. Honours, M.A. (Durham)

Link(s): 
Selected publications: 

Books

(Cambridge University Press, 2014).

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, ed. with Peter Sabor (Cambridge University Press, 2012).

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Articles and Book Chapters

鈥淛oanna Baillie: The Female Shakespeare鈥�, Women Making Shakespeare: Text, Reception and Performance, eds. Gordon McMullan, Lena Cowen Orlin and Virginia Mason Vaughan (London: Bloomsbury, 2013), 143-52.

鈥淪hakespeare and the Star Actress on the Eighteenth-Century Regional Stage鈥�, Journal of the Wooden O 12 (2013): 57-65.

鈥沦丑补办别蝉辫别补谤别鈥�, Samuel Johnson in Context, ed. Jack Lynch (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012) 343-51.

鈥淪hakespeare and the Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Stage鈥�, The Edinburgh Companion to Shakespeare and the Arts, eds. Mark Thornton Burnett, Adrian Streete and Ramona Wray (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2011) 274-91.

鈥淭he Impact of the Shakespeare Ladies Club on John Rich鈥檚 Repertory in the 1737-38 Theatrical Season: Shakespeare Versus Pantomime?鈥� 鈥楾he Stage鈥檚 Glory鈥�: John Rich (1692-1761), eds. Berta Joncus and Jeremy Barlow (Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press, 2011) 207-10.

鈥溾�楯ilting Jades鈥�?: Perceptions of Female Playgoers in the Restoration, 1660-1700鈥�, From Theatre and Culture in Early Modern England, 1650-1737: From Leviathan to Licensing Act, ed. Catie Gill (Aldershot: Ashgate 2010) 131-44.

鈥淭he Artistic, Cultural, and Economic Power of the Actress in the Age of Garrick鈥�, Shakespeare in Stages: New Theatre Histories, eds. Christine Dymkowski and Christie Carson (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), 107-23.

鈥淲omen and Shakespeare in the Restoration and Eighteenth Century鈥�, Literature Compass 5.6 (September 2008), 1154-69.

鈥淭he Influence of the Female Audience on the Shakespeare Revival of 1736鈥�38: The Case of the Shakespeare Ladies Club鈥�, Shakespeare and the Eighteenth Century, eds. Peter Sabor and Paul Yachnin (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008), 57-69.

鈥淓lizabeth Montagu: 鈥楽hakespear鈥檚 Poor Little Critick鈥�?鈥� Shakespeare Survey 58 (2005), 72-82.

Public Scholarship

Newsletter Articles and Blog Posts

听Centre for the History of Emotions E-Newsletter, December 2014.

听Histories of Emotion: From Medieval Europe to Contemporary Australia (Centre for the History of Emotions blog), 13 November 2014.

鈥淓xploring the Theatre History of the Eighteenth Century: My Experience of Curating an Exhibition on Johnson and the Theatre,鈥� Johnsonian News Letter 59:1 (March 2008): 35-41.

Exhibitions

Behind the Scenes: The Hidden Life of Georgian Theatre, 1737-1784 (Dr Johnson鈥檚 House, London, April 鈥� September 2007).

Awards, honours, and fellowships: 
  • SSHRC Insight Grant (2014-2019)
  • Early Career International Research fellowship, Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions (2014)
  • FQRSC programme pour l鈥櫭﹖ablissement de nouveau professeurs-chercheurs (2009-2012)
  • Chawton House Library fellowship (2010)
  • Lewis Walpole Library fellowship (2009)
  • Huntington Library fellowships (2005 and 2009)
    Taught previously at: 

    King鈥檚 College London (London, England)

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