Lecture Series: Re-reading Realness on Stage: Theatre, Audiences, and Reception

Date

Tuesday March 10, 2026
2:30 pm - 2:00 pm

Location

Mac-Corry Hall, Room D202

Kelsey Jacobson is an associate professor in the DAN School of Drama and Music, newly cross-appointed with the Department of English and Creative Writing. She is passionate about teaching and supervising and was awarded the Frank Knox Award for Teaching Excellence in 2021. She received her PhD from the University of Toronto and her MA from University of London where she also spent time working in Research and Higher Education at Shakespeare鈥檚 Globe in London, UK. Her SSHRC-funded research focuses on audience and spectatorship studies, and in particular on the ways in which audiences impact, receive, and make meaning through performance. She has expertise in, and teaches courses on, theatre histories, dramatic literature, and performance studies.