Jessica Riley

Title: Associate Professor
Phone: 204-786-9285
Office: 4T03
Building: Asper Centre for Theatre and Film
Email: j.riley@uwinnipeg.ca

Biography:
Dr. Jessica Riley is Associate Professor in the Department of Theatre and Film at the University of Winnipeg. Her research and teaching focus on theatre history and historiography, dramaturgy, and Canadian drama. She is currently at work on a manuscript that uses archival research to analyze the gatekeeping functions and creative impacts of new play dramaturgy as practised by one of the most prolific Canadian dramaturgs of the late twentieth century, Urjo Kareda.

Teaching Areas:

Canadian Drama

Theatre History and Historiography

Dramaturgy

Courses:

THFM-1002 Introduction to Theatre: General

THFM/ENGL 2703 Play Analysis

Theatre History I, II and III

THFM-3402 Canadian Drama

Publications:

“‘A Dramaturgical Chimera’: Judith Thompson, Urjo Kareda, and the Politics of Playwright-Dramaturg Negotiations.” Theatre Research in Canada 42.1 (2021): 82-99.

"Canadian Drama in the New Millennium: Inherited and Evolving Dramaturgies."  Anglistik International Journal of English Studies 30.1 (2019): 13-22.

A Man of Letters:  The Selected Dramaturgical Correspondence of Urjo Kareda. Toronto: Playwrights Canada Press, 2017.

"Drama."  The Cambridge Companion to Canadian Literature, 2nd edition.  Ed. Eva-Marie Kröller.  Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press, 2017.  128-149.  Co-authored with Ric Knowles.

"Invisibility and Early New Play Dramaturgy: Bill Glassco's Development of David Freeman's Creeps."  Canadian Performance Histories and Historiographies.  Ed. Heather Davis-Fisch.  Toronto:  Playwrights Canada Press, 2017.  179-201.

"The Intermedial Intercultural and the Limits of Empathy: Aluna Theatre's Nohavquiensepa."  Revised reprint in Performing the Intercultural City by Ric Knowles.  Ann Arbour:  University of Michigan Press, 2017.  152-175.  Co-authored with Ric Knowles.

"Transgression and Transformation: Mickey B and the Dramaturgy of Adaptation."  Outerspeares.  Ed. Daniel Fischlin.  Toronto:  University of Toronto Press, 2014.  152-204.  Co-authored with Daniel Fischlin and Tom Magill.

"Aluna Theatre's Nohavquiensepa: The Intermedial Intercultural and the Limits of Empathy."  Latino/a Canadian Theatre.  Ed. Natalie Alvarez.  Toronto: Playwrights Canada Press, 2013.  36-63.  Co-authored with Ric Knowles.

"Finding Urjo Kareda in the Archive."  Canadian Theatre Review 156.  (2013): 7-11.