Rate My Professor Glen McGillivray

His research interests encompassed the history of acting, drama and theatre studies, eighteenth-century history, performance studies, and postdramatic theatre. McGillivray contributed as Chief Investigator to the ARC-funded AusStage project (2007-2012) and as Associate Investigator to the ARC Centre for the History of Emotions (2014-2015), and was a research fellow at the Folger Shakespeare Library in 2015. Notable publications include his book Actors, Audiences, and Emotions in the Eighteenth Century (Springer, 2023), the edited collection Scrapbooks, Snapshots and Memorabilia: Hidden Archives of Performance (Lang, 2011), and peer-reviewed articles like "Rant, Cant and Tone: The Voice of the Eighteenth-Century Actor and Sarah Siddons" (Theatre Notebook, 2017), "Suiting Forms to Their Conceit": Emotion and Convention in Eighteenth-Century Tragic Acting (Theatre Survey, 2018), and "The Discursive Formation of Theatricality as a Critical Concept" (Metaphorik.de, 2009). He served on the editorial boards of Australasian Drama Studies and About Performance, and supervised postgraduate research using arts-based methods while teaching courses on acting techniques, Shakespeare rehearsal, and directing.