JENNIFER ROBERTS-SMITH

I am an Assistant Professor of Drama at the University of Waterloo. My scholarship focuses on historical performance reconstruction, digital visualizations of theatrical text and performance, the language and dramaturgy of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, and theatre pedagogy. From a methodological point of view, I am interested in the intersections between theory and practice, so I also continue to work as a director-dramaturge both within and outside the university. Most of my work is collaborative and multi-disciplinary. I publish and present with my colleagues in diverse venues, including theatre, digital humanities, scholarship of teaching and learning, literature, linguistics, and design conferences and journals, as well as through live performance as a director and dramaturge. In the Department of Drama and Speech Communication at the University of Waterloo, I teach introduction to theatre, acting, theatre history, early English theatre, modern drama, and also direct department productions. Before joining UW in 2007, I taught at the Universities of Toronto, Windsor, and Ottawa.