Name | Position |
---|---|
Bray, Dorothy | Associate Professor |
Bristol, Michael | Professor |
Kaite, Berkeley | Associate Professor |
Kreiswirth, Martin | Professor |
Lieblein, Leanore | Associate Professor |
McSweeney, Kerry | Professor |
Neilson, Patrick | Associate Professor |
Ohlin, Peter | Professor |
Salter, Denis | Associate Professor |
Trehearne, Brian | Professor Emeritus |
Profiles
Dorthy Bray
Stream: Literature
Degree(s):
B.A. (McGill);
Ph.D., Celtic Studies (Edinburgh)
Previously Taught: McMaster University, University of Durham
Area(s): Medieval studies, Celtic and Anglo-Saxon; early Irish hagiography; heroic tradition; Celtic folklore and mythology; women saints and women’s spirituality
Selected Publications:
Books
A List of Motifs in the Lives of the Early Irish Saints (Academia Scientiarum Fennica, 1993)
Articles and Chapters
‘The Vita Prima of St. Brigit: A Preliminary Analysis of Its Composition.’ Narrative in Celtic Tradition: Essays in Honour of Edgar M. Slotkin. Ed. Joseph F. Nagy. CSANA Yearbook 8-9 (Colgate University Press), 1-15.
‘Ireland’s Other Apostle: Cogitosus’ Saint Brigit.’ Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies 59 (Summer 2010): 55-70.
‘Further on White Red-Eared Cows in Fact and Fiction.’ Peritia 19 (2005): 239-255.
‘Miracles and Wonders in the Lives of the Early Irish Saints’ in Celtic Hagiography and Saints’ Cults, ed. Jane Cartwright (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2002): 136-147.
‘Malediction and Benediction in the Lives of the Early Irish Saints.’ Studia Celtica 36 (2002): 47-58. [published March 2003]
‘The Study of Folk-Motifs in Early Irish Hagiography: Problems of Approach, and Rewards at Hand.’ In Studies in Irish Hagiography: Saints and Scholars, ed. John Carey, Máire Herbert, Pádraig Ó Riain (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2001): 268-277.
"Suckling at the Breast of Christ: a spiritual lesson in an Irish hagiographical motif." Peritia 14 (2000): 282-296.
"The Manly Spirit of St. Monenna," in Celtic Connections, Vol. 1, ed. R. Black et al. (East Linton, 1999): 171-181.
"Secunda Brigida: Saint Ita of Killeedy and Brigidine Tradition", in Celtic Languages and Celtic People (1992): 27-38.
"Heroic Tradition in the Lives of the Early Irish Saints," in Proceedings of the First North American Congress of Celtic Studies (1988): 261-71.
"The Image of St. Brigit in the Early Irish Church," Études Celtiques 24 (1987): 209-215.
"Allegory in the Navigatio Sancti Brendani," Viator 26 (1995): 1-10.
Awards, Honours, and Fellowships: FCAC Bourse de recherche, British Council Personal Grant
Email: dorothy.bray [at] mcgill.ca
Michael D. Bristol
Stream: Literature
Degree(s):
B.A. (Yale)
Ph.D. (Princeton)
Area(s): Renaissance literature; Shakespeare; Shakespeare and contemporary popular culture; questions of moral agency in Renaissance drama; sociology of literature
Selected Publications:
Books
Big Time Shakespeare (1996)
Shakespeare's America / America's Shakespeare (1990)
Carnival and Theatre: Plebian Culture and the Structure of Authority in Renaissance England (1985)
Articles and Chapters
"Funeral Baked Meats: Carnival and the Carnivalesque in Hamlet," in William Shakespeare: Hamlet Case Studies (1994): 348-368.
"Where Does Ideology Hang Out?" in Shakespeare Right and Left (1991): 31-43.
"Chivarari and the Comedy of Abjection in Othello," in True Rites and Maimed Rites (1992): 75-98.
"In Search of the Bear: Spatio-Temporal Form and the Heterogeneity of Economies in The Winter's Tale," Shakespeare Quarterly, 41 (Summer 1991): 145-68.
"Lenten Butchery: Legitimation Crisis in Coriolanus," in Shakespeare Reproduced: The Text in History and Ideology (1987).
Awards, Honours, and Fellowships: David Thomson Award for Excellence in Graduate Supervision
Email: michael.bristol [at] mcgill.ca
Berkeley Kaite
Stream: Cultural Studies
Degree(s):
B.A. (Concordia)
M.A. (McMaster)
Ph.D. (Carleton)
Previously Taught: Carleton University, Simone de Beauvoir Institute - Concordia University
Area(s): feminist cultural studies; cultural memory and popular media; the body
Selected Publications:
Books
Editor, Menstruation Now: What Does Blood Perform? (Demeter, 2019)
Pornography and Difference (1995)
Articles and Chapters
“Bloody Jackie: how menstrual blood speaks for Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis’s silence” in Menstruation Now: What Does Blood Perform? (2019)
“Camelot: the violence and the ecstasy,” Teorija in Praksa. 5-6, Sept-Dec (2013)
“Fetish Operations in the Photographs of Sally Mann,” Mothering and Psychoanalysis, ed., Petra Bueskens. Toronto: Demeter Press (2014)
Reviews of Canadian Cultural Poesis; Caught: Montréal’s Modern Girls and the Law, 1869-194;, and, Types of Canadian Women in Canadian Literature
“The Pink Suit: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Celebrity Defilement,” Celebrity Studies. http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/uN9f2TeZeJCbqffq83Qh/full
Awards, Honours, and Fellowships: SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship
Email: berkeley.kaite [at] mcgill.ca
Leanore Lieblein
Stream: Literature
Degree(s):
B.A. (City College of New York)
M.A., Ph.D. (Rochester)
Previously Taught: City College of New York, University of Rochester
Area(s): drama and dramatic theory, Renaissance literature; Shakespeare in France and French Canada; the Shakespearean body; the concept of character
Selected Publications:
Books
A Certain William: Adapting Shakespeare in Francophone Canada (2009)
Articles and Chapters
“Embodied Intersubjectivity and the Creation of Early Modern Character.” In Shakespeare and Character: Theory, History, Performance, and Theatrical Persons, ed. Paul Yachnin and Jessica Slights (2009).
“Pourquoi Shakespeare?” in Shakespeare: Made in Canada, ed. Daniel Fischlin and Judith Nasby (2007)
“Nuancing Diversity: The Boyokani Company Hamlet.” alt.theatre: Cultural Diversity and the Stage, 4.2-3 (May 2006): 22-24; 31.
“Corporeal Ecology and European Otherness on the Shakespearean Stage.” In Shakespeare et l’Europe de la Renaissance, ed. Pierre Kapitanik (2004).
“My breasts sear'd": The Self-Starved Female Body and A Woman Killed with Kindness.” (With Christopher Frey.) Early Theatre, 7.1 (2004): 45-66.
“Le Re-making of Le Grand Will” In “A World elsewhere?”: Canadian Shakespeare, ed. Diana Brydon and Irena Makaryk (2002).
“Interrogating the Shakespearean Body,” CTR 111 (Summer 2002): 15-21.
“Shakespeare in Francophone Quebec,” Internet Shakespeare Editions.
“Alfred Pellan, Twelfth Night, and the Modernist Shakespeare” (with Patrick Neilson), Shakespeare Yearbook 11 (2000): 389-422.
Editor, “Traversees de Shakespeare” (Dossier), L'Annuaire Theatral, 24 (automne 1998): 9-138.
“Theatre Archives at the Intersection of Production and Reception,” inTextual and Theatrical Shakespeare: Questions of Evidence (1996).
“`Les Grecs' à la francaise,” TRI 18.2 (1993): 123-37.
“East Berlin Theatre Diary,” JDTC 6 (Fall 1991): 106-23.
“Translation and Mise-en-Scène,” JDTC 5 (Fall 1990:81-94.
“The Politics of Renaissance Culture,” in L'Europe de la Renaissance(1989): 49-64.
“Flexible Iconography: The Experience of the Spectator of Medieval Religious Drama,” Le Moyen francais 19 (1988): 135-47.
“Jan Kott, Peter Brook, and King Lear,” JDTC 1.2 (1987): 39-49.
Co-translator of Les Esbahis (1561).
Director of Everyman, Calderon de la Barca's Life Is a Dream, Timberlake Wertenbaker's The Love of the Nightingale, the Towneley Pharaoh, and Slaying of Abel; co-director of George Peele's Old Wives Tale.
Email: leanore.lieblein [at] mcgill.ca