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Roberta Barker is a Professor of Theatre at Dalhousie University and Joint Faculty member at King’s College. She teaches in the Foundation Year and Early Modern Studies programs at King’s College and Theatre at the Fountain School of Performing Arts. Her research explores performance’s role in shaping identity, including gender, class, and medical narratives in early modern and 19th-century theatre. Barker has directed operas like Luisa Miller and plays such as Henry IV, Part One. She serves as Theatre Reviews editor for Shakespeare Bulletin and Assistant Editor (Music History) for the New Variorum edition of A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Education: BA (Vind), MA (Dalhousie), PhD (Shakespeare Institute, Birmingham).
Her research focuses on realist performance, early modern tragedy, Canadian theatre, and medical humanities. Recent work analyzes the consumptive hero in 19th-century drama and Shakespearean performance practices. Collaborations with Kim Solga include editing New Canadian Realisms and co-curating special journal issues.
Her articles and edited volumes span topics like realist acting in Jacobean tragedy, French 19th-century drama, and Canadian theatrical identity. Awards include Dalhousie’s Alumni Award for Excellence in Teaching (2014) and SSHRC grants supporting research on performance and illness narratives.
Grants include SSHRC Insight Development Grant (2013-15) and Standard Research Grant (2005-08). Editorial roles highlight her contributions to scholarly discourse in theatre history and performance theory.
