Christopher Innes
Canada Research Chair in Performance and Culture, York University.
Last Contribution:
A Woman At The Globe
Contributor Biography
Christopher Innes holds the Canada Research Chair in Performance and Culture, together with the title of Distinguished Research Professor at York University, Toronto. A Killam Fellow of the Canada Council, he is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and of the Royal Society of Arts (UK).
Author of fifteen books – which have been translated into eight different languages – and over 100 articles on various aspects of modern drama, he is also General Editor of the Cambridge "Directors in Perspective" series, Co-Editor of the “Lives of the Theatre” series, a Contributing Editor to The Cambridge Guide to World Theatre, and has been Co-Editor of the quarterly journal Modern Drama. He is also on the Editorial Boards of various other series and international journals: including Theatre in the Americas, Theatre International: East-West Perspectives on Theatre (Calcutta), The Humanities (Hong Kong), Symbolism: An International Journal of Critical Aesthetics (Würzburg & New York).
In addition to his full-time position at York University in Toronto, Christopher Innes has held Fellowships at Corpus Christi College and St. John's College, Cambridge, and has been Visiting Professor at Ohtani Women's University in Osaka, Japan, University-Professor at the Johannes Gutenberg Universität, Mainz, and Visiting Eminent Scholar at the University of Newcastle, Australia. He currently holds the position of Adjunct Professor and Research consultant at Copenhagen University, Denmark. He is also the founding Director of the Interdisciplinary Graduate Programme at York University.
He has organized several international conferences, most recently “Carnival: ‘A People’s Art’ and Taking Back the Streets”, in conjunction with the University of Toronto, Caribana, and the International Steelpan Association. He has lectured widely: most recently in India, the USA, England, Germany, Japan Egypt, Iran, and Scandinavia. He is involved with the Shaw Festival at Niagara-on-the-Lake, and has also served on the Board of the Canadian Stage Company in Toronto. In addition he is advising the United States Postal Services (USPS) on the development of its commemorative stamp program, and is a member of the Bel Geddes Exhibition Planning Group for the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (University of Texas).
His website is www.moderndrama.com
