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

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Personal life

Schweitzer and her husband Dan have two children together.

Career

After earning her PhD, Schweitzer accepted the Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities at the

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. 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.''" 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. The book, published through the

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, examined consumer capitalism and the theater, department store, and fashion industries. The book would also go on to be a Freedley Award Finalist in 2010. During the following academic term, 2009–10, Schweitzer accepted a John W. Kluge Fellowship at the

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. This was followed by a short-term fellowship with the

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. 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. From 2016 until 2018, Schweitzer served as president of the CATR. In her role as president, Schweitzer co-edited "''Performance Studies in Canada''" in 2017 with Laura Levin which was published through the

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. This book would earn her the 2018 Patrick O'Neill Award from CATR. She also published "''Transatlantic Broadway: The Infrastructural Politics of Global Performance''" through

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. In her last year as president, she received a

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grant to fund a two-day event supporting Playing with History: A Performance-Based Historiography Symposium. She also launched her own

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called Scene Change. In 2019, Schweitzer was elected a Member of the

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College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists. She also sat on the Cambridge University Press Prize committee board and was appointed editor of ''Theatre Survey,'' a theatre historical journal. , Schweitzer is Chair of the Department of Theatre at York University.

Selected publications

The following is a list of selected publications: *''When Broadway was the runway: theater, fashion, and American culture'' (2011) *''Transatlantic broadway: the infrastructural politics of global performance'' (2015) *''Performance studies in Canada'' (2017)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Schweitzer, Marlis Living people 21st-century Canadian women writers 21st-century Canadian historians Canadian women historians York University faculty University of Toronto alumni University of Victoria alumni 1975 births