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Biography
Specializing in the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, Andrea Stevens is also affiliated with Theatre, Medieval Studies, and the European Union Center. She is the author of Inventions of the Skin: The Painted Body in Early English Drama (2013) and her edition of William Heminge's 1639 tragedy The Fatal Contract -- the first modernized edition of this play-text -- can be found in the Routledge Anthology of Early Modern Drama (2020) Her performance-as-research includes dramaturgy and the adaptation of Shakespeare and early modern drama for contemporary performance, for instance Titus Andronicus (KCPA October 2019), Romeo and Juliet (KCPA March 2017), and The Duchess of Malfi (Armory Free Theatre February 2015, which she also directed). Her current research includes a monograph titled Racial Masquerade and the Early English Actress 1600 – 1800 and a further book-length study of the intersection of performance and poetics titled The Unearned Authority of Rhyme.
To hear her discuss research related to her book on racial masquerade, click here (and here).
Research Interests
The drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries; theater history, 1400-1800; early British literature; Shakespeare original practices; early modern poetry; poetics and poetic theory
Education
- Ph.D., English literature, University of Virginia
- M.A., English literature, Dalhousie University
- B.A. Honours, Huron University College
Awards and Honors
Lynn M. Martin Professorial Scholar (2023-2026)
Visiting Fellow, St Catherine's College, Oxford (Fall 2024)
The Campus Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award (2015)
The LAS Lynn M. Martin Award for Distinguished Women Teachers (2015)
Courses Taught
Spring 2026: ENGL 209 British Literature to 1800
Summer Session II: Shakespeare on Film (asynch, 8 week summer course)
Additional Campus Affiliations
Associate Professor, Department of Theatre
Associate Professor, Program in Medieval Studies
Highlighted Publications
Stevens, A. (2013). Inventions of the Skin: The Painted Body in Early English Drama, 1400-1642. Edinburgh University Press. https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9780748670499.001.0001
Recent Publications
Stevens, A. (Ed.) (2020). The Fatal Contract, by William Heminge. In J. Lopez (Ed.), The Routledge Anthology of Early Modern Drama (pp. 136-194). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315667188-3
Stevens, A. (2017). Edward II: A Stage History. In Edward II a Critical Reader (pp. 43-72). Bloomsbury Publishing Plc..
Stevens, A. (2017). Edward II: A Stage History. In K. Melnikoff (Ed.), Edward II: A Critical Reader (pp. 43-72). (Arden Early Modern Drama Guides). The Arden Shakespeare. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781472584076.ch-002
Stevens, A. (2015). COSMETIC TRANSFORMATIONS. In Shakespeare's Theatres and the Effects of Performance (pp. 94-117). Bloomsbury Publishing Plc..
Stevens, A. (2015). The Spotting of Lady Conscience in the Three Ladies of London. Web publication/site http://threeladiesoflondon.mcmaster.ca/contexts/box.htm