| Marlis Schweitzer | |
| Spouse: | Dan Evans |
| Children: | 2 |
| Education: | BA, BFA., University of Victoria PhD, 2005, University of Toronto |
| Thesis Title: | Becoming fashionable: actresses, fashion, and the development of American consumer culture, 1893-1919. |
| Thesis Year: | 2005 |
| Workplaces: | York University |
Marlis Erica Schweitzer (born 1975) is a Canadian theatre and performance historian. She is an associate professor and Chair of the Department of Theatre at York University.
Schweitzer and her husband Dan have two children together.[1]
After earning her PhD, Schweitzer accepted the Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania.[2] The following year, Schweitzer was the recipient of the 2007 Richard Plant Award from the Canadian Association for Theatre Research (CATR) for her article "Stepping on Stiletto: Kaleidoscope, CAPP, and Controversy."[3] In 2009, Schweitzer published "When Broadway Was the Runway: Theater, Fashion, and American Culture" which was named Outstanding Academic Title by .[4] The book, published through the University of Pennsylvania Press, examined consumer capitalism and the theater, department store, and fashion industries.[5] [6] The book would also go on to be a Freedley Award Finalist in 2010.[7] During the following academic term, 2009–10, Schweitzer accepted a John W. Kluge Fellowship at the Library of Congress.[8] This was followed by a short-term fellowship with the Folger Shakespeare Library.[9]
From 2013 until 2016, Schweitzer was a general editor for Theatre Research in Canada. She left the journal in 2016 to accept a role as President of the Canadian Association for Theatre Research.[10] From 2016 until 2018, Schweitzer served as president of the CATR.[11] In her role as president, Schweitzer co-edited "Performance Studies in Canada" in 2017 with Laura Levin which was published through the McGill–Queen's University Press.[12] This book would earn her the 2018 Patrick O'Neill Award from CATR.[13] She also published "Transatlantic Broadway: The Infrastructural Politics of Global Performance" through Palgrave Macmillan.[14] In her last year as president, she received a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada grant to fund a two-day event supporting Playing with History: A Performance-Based Historiography Symposium.[15] She also launched her own podcast called Scene Change.[16]
In 2019, Schweitzer was elected a Member of the Royal Society of Canada College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists.[17] She also sat on the Cambridge University Press Prize committee board and was appointed editor of Theatre Survey, a theatre historical journal.[18], Schweitzer is Chair of the Department of Theatre at York University.[19]
The following is a list of selected publications:[20]