Dr. Ric Knowles
Fellow
Current Employer
University of Guelph
Election Year
2009
Academy
Académie des arts, des lettres et des sciences du Canada
Discipline
Literature
Department
School of English and Theatre Studies
Keywords
canadian Theatre, Intercultural performance, semiotics
Ric Knowles is the foremost scholar of Canadian theatre of his generation. He is also an expert in Shakespearean theatre and in contemporary theories of theatre production and performance. Ric Knowles enjoys a prestigious national and international reputation as a superb speaker, innovative thinker, and imaginative critic; few scholars today have his intellectual range and scholarly depth.
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KNOWLES, Ric –School of English and Theatre Studies
Ric Knowles is the foremost scholar of Canadian theatre of his generation. He is also an expert in Shakespearean theatre and in contemporary theories of theatre production and performance. Two of his fifteen books are ground-breaking studies: The Theatre of Form and the Production of Meaning: Contemporary Canadian Dramaturgies (1999), was the first analysis of Canadian theatre practice from a sophisticated, theoretical perspective, and it remains the benchmark study in the field; Reading the Material Theatre (2004), highly acclaimed on the international scene, is an illuminating, rigorous, wide-ranging, comparative exploration of "materialist semiotics" in theatre production and reception in Britain, the United States, and Canada. Ric Knowles enjoys a prestigious national and international reputation as a superb speaker, innovative thinker, and imaginative critic; few scholars today have his intellectual range and scholarly depth.
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KNOWLES, Ric –School of English and Theatre Studies
Ric Knowles is the foremost scholar of Canadian theatre of his generation. He is also an expert in Shakespearean theatre and in contemporary theories of theatre production and performance. Two of his fifteen books are ground-breaking studies: The Theatre of Form and the Production of Meaning: Contemporary Canadian Dramaturgies (1999), was the first analysis of Canadian theatre practice from a sophisticated, theoretical perspective, and it remains the benchmark study in the field; Reading the Material Theatre (2004), highly acclaimed on the international scene, is an illuminating, rigorous, wide-ranging, comparative exploration of "materialist semiotics" in theatre production and reception in Britain, the United States, and Canada. Ric Knowles enjoys a prestigious national and international reputation as a superb speaker, innovative thinker, and imaginative critic; few scholars today have his intellectual range and scholarly depth.
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