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Research output per year
Personal profile
Research interests
Elaine McGirr is a literary and theatre historian specialising in the long eighteenth century. Research interests include politics and/of performance, eighteenth-century Shakespeare, celebrity studies, and the intersections of gender and genre. Recent publications include A Performance History of The Fair Penitent (CUP, forthcoming) Partial Histories: a Reappraisal of Colley Cibber (Palgrave, 2016), and articles on celebrity origin stories, fictional biographies, eigheenth-century Shakespeare, and the authority of actresses. She is currently working on the memoirs of Mary Ann Yates, the greatest actress you've never heard of.
Keywords
- Shakespeare and adaptation
- Gender and Sexuality
- historical performance practices
- dramaturgy
- eighteenth-century theatre
- Tragedy
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Research output
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You Can't Spell Tragedy Without Rage
McGirr, E. M., 28 Mar 2025, In: Literature Compass. 22, 2, 4 p., e70021.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
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Afterword: 'I leave my character behind me'
McGirr, E. M., 29 May 2024, Character and Caricature, 1660–1820. Buckley, J. & Davies-Shuck, M. (eds.). Palgrave Macmillan, p. 191-196 6 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter in a book
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A Performance History of The Fair Penitent
McGirr, E. M., 21 Mar 2024, 1st ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Eighteenth-Century Connections)Research output: Book/Report › Authored book
Projects
- 1 Finished
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8022 Bristol and Bath R&D Cluster, Academic Fellowship (AHRC) - Ellie Chadwick - UWE lead
18/05/20 → 30/04/21
Project: Research
Prizes
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Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
McGirr, Elaine M (Recipient), 2020
Prize: Election to learned society
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Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
McGirr, Elaine M (Recipient), 2017
Prize: Election to learned society
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Theatre and Performance Research Association (TaPRA) 2018
McGirr, E. M. (Participant)
6 Sept 2018Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
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Character to Caricature, 1660-1830
McGirr, E. M. (Participant)
3 Sept 2018Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
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American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies Annual Meeting (2017)
McGirr, E. M. (Participant)
30 Mar 2017 → 1 Apr 2017Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference