Experience

University of Ottawa

• Canada
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Professor

  • Jul 2004 - Present

  With three single authored books and nine co-edited collections, Professor Yana Meerzon, specializes in theoretical approaches to contemporary performance and dramaturgy, questions of displacement, multilingualism, and identity politics. For the past two decades, Professor Meerzon has been studying theatrical representations of migration created by migrant artists in Europe and North America. With the rise of political populism, religious fundamentalism, and nationalism, she turned to the issues of borders and politics of nation building, within which today’s practices and discussions of global migration take place. A professionally trained theater critic (GITIS, Moscow), she also teaches theatre criticism and occasionally reviews theater productions in Ottawa and elsewhere. Her current research project is entitled “Between Migration and Neo-Nationalism(s): Performing the European Nation -- Playing a Foreigner”; and it has been funded by The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). Russian theater and the acting theory of Michael Chekhov remain her inspiration, which she brings to Canadian theater scholarship in the role of the President of the Canadian Association for Theater Research (CATR), 2020-2022. Show less