Meet the Research Team
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Kimberley McLeod
Kimberley McLeod is an artist-researcher with a background in directing, devising and experimental performance. Both her creative and scholarly work interrogate how theatre and performance artists engage digital tools to implicate audiences within infrastructures related to public space, digital labour, online identity and social connection. She is particularly interested in how artistic practice can provide avenues to critically reflect on or resist this entanglement. McLeod is Associate Professor in the School of Theatre, English, and Creative Writing at the University of Guelph and Editor-in-Chief of Canadian Theatre Review.
Michelle MacArthur
Michelle MacArthur is Associate Professor at the University of Windsor's School of Dramatic Art and Program Chair of UWindsor's Interdisciplinary Arts & Science program. Her SSHRC-funded research focuses on three intersecting areas: contemporary Canadian theatre, feminist performance, and theatre criticism. Her writing has appeared in journals including Canadian Theatre Review, Research in Drama Education, Contemporary Theatre Review, and Studies in Musical Theatre. She is co-editor of the journal Theatre Research in Canada and of the forthcoming Making Moscovitch: A Feminist Theatre Scrapbook (Playwrights Canada Press, 2026).
Michael Bergmann
Michael F Bergmann is an artist and Associate Professor in Performance at The Creative School, Toronto Metropolitan University, and a PhD student in Critical Studies in Improvisation at the University of Guelph. His research examines post-anthropocentric performance and improvisational modes for human–AI collaboration, developed through a practice-based framework he calls Improvnetics. His work asks what care, ethics, and co-creation look like when one collaborator’s interiority is genuinely uncertain. Bergmann holds an MFA in Design from the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University.
Bridget Baldwin
Bridget Baldwin is a PhD candidate at the University of Guelph in the School of English, Theatre, and Creative Writing. She is interested in contemporary works of theatre and performance that explore and engage tensions between personal freedom, agency, and patriarchal control. Her SSHRC-funded dissertation, “If I Got to Leave”, examines the role of gender in the narrativized migrations of white settler Cape Breton women in contemporary theatre, film, and television. Works by Baldwin can be found in the International Review of Scottish Studies and in the upcoming collection Making Moscovitch: A Feminist Theatre Scrapbook.
Zane Aubie
Zane Aubie is a PhD student in the School of Theatre, English, and Creative Writing at the University of Guelph. His areas of research include posttraumatic and perimortem meaning-making in First World War literature, Canadian Literature, auteur theory, and depictions of sex and religion in ecological writing, and digital alienation. His doctoral dissertation looks at land, bodies, and time “out of joint” in the postwar writings of Virginia Woolf and L.M. Montgomery. Zane is a 2026 resident at The Humanities Interdisciplinary Collaboration Laboratory (THINC), a member of the International Society for First World War Studies, and a member of the Canadian Film Institute. He holds an MA in English from the University of Guelph, and a Bachelor of Arts in Film Studies and Philosophy from Wilfrid Laurier University.
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