Selected Articles and Chapters

“Thirteen Ways of Looking at Nothing,” an essay on visual artist Kathy Slade, forthcoming.

With Amy Bowring and Seika Boye, "Looking for Dance in Canadian Theatre Review," Canadian Theatre Review 200 (Winter 2025): 129-132.

"Dancing Community in Vancouver: Four Propositions," in Competing Choreographies: Ten Years of the Keir Choreographic Award, eds. Angel Conquet and Philipa Rothfield (Melbourne, Australia: The Keir Foundation, 2024), 130-137.

"Dance Winners and Losers in Lyon and Paris: A Review Essay."

"Reckoning with Wreckage in the Work of Nancy Tam," PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art 46.1 (2024): 80-89.

With Ellen Waterman, "Introduction: The Performative Force of Practice-Based Research," Performance Matters 9.1-2 (2023): 1-10.

“Dance in Vancouver Three Ways,” in Recent Dance from British Columbia (Vancouver: The Dance Centre, 2022).

“’A city’s social history is also its dance history’: Peter Dickinson in Conversation with Emma Metcalfe Hurst,” Coming Out of Chaos: A Vancouver Dance Story. Interview published November 2021.

"'Dancing Alone Together,'" in "Notes from the Field: Remembering Times of Crisis," Theatre Survey 62.3 (2021): 347-51.

"Archival Gestures, or, The Afterlives of Performance in the Work of Helen Goodwin, Justine A. Chambers, and Evann Siebens," Beginning with the Seventies, ed. Lorna Brown (Vancouver: Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery/Information Office, 2020), 135-139.

"The Films of Simone Rapisarda Casanova," Anthropologica 61.2 (2019): 345-349.

"Narrative Pivots: On the Matter of Text and Movement in Crystal Pite's Dance-Theatre," in Narrative in Performance, eds. Barbara Sellers-Young and Jade McCutcheon (London: Palgrave, 2019), 241-282.

“The Curatorial Chronotope,” in Curating Live Arts: Global Perspectives, eds. Dena Davida, Jane Gabriels, Véronique Hudon and Marc Provonost (Berghan Books, 2019), 71-77.

“’Still (Mighty) Real’”: HIV/AIDS, Queer Public Memories, and the Intergenerational Drag Hail,” in Viral Dramaturgies: HIV and AIDS in Performance in theTwenty-First Century, eds. Alyson Campbell and Dirk Gindt (London: Palgrave, 2018), 113-131.

With CE Gatchalian, Kathleen Oliver, and Dalbir Singh, "Putting the Qs in Q2Q," in Q2Q: Queer Canadian Theatre and Performance, New Essays in Canadian Theatre, Volume 8, eds. Peter Dickinson, CE Gatchalian, Kathleen Oliver, and Dalbir Singh (Toronto: Playwrights Canada Press, 2018), 1-18.

With CE Gatchalian, Kathleen Oliver, and Dalbir Singh, "Introduction: Queer Works/Working Queer," in Q2Q: Queer Canadian Performance Texts, eds. Peter Dickinson, CE Gatchalian, Kathleen Oliver, and Dalbir Singh (Toronto: Playwrights Canada Press, 2018), v-xii.

"A Living Archive of Queer Performance, Practice and Politics: The Q2Q Conference," Canadian Theatre Review 171 (Summer 2017): 129-30.

“Choreographies of Place: Dancing the Vancouver Sublime from Dusk to Dawn,” in Performance Studies in Canada, eds. Laura Levin and Marlis Schweitzer (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2017), 90-114.

With Hervé Guay, Laura Levin, Alvina Ruprecht and Alexandre Cadieux, “Theatre Criticism in Canada: A Roundtable,” Canadian Theatre Review 168 (Fall 2016): 54-62.

“Vancouverism and its Cultural Amenities: The View from Here,” Canadian Theatre Review 167 (Summer 2016): 40-47.
With Kirsty Johnston and Keren Zaiontz, "Introduction: Mega-Event Cities: Art/Audiences/Aftermaths," PUBLIC 53 (Spring 2016): 4-10.

With Kirsty Johnston and Keren Zaiontz, "Vancouver after 2010: An Introduction," Canadian Theatre Review 164 (2015): 5-9.
"Forward with The Road Forward: A Conversation with Marie Clements," Canadian Theatre Review 164 (2015): 36-43.
“Elephants in the Room: An Introduction to Donna-Michelle St. Bernard’s Salome’s Clothes,” in Performing Back: Postcolonial Theatre, New Canadian Drama Series, ed. Dalbir Singh (Playwrights Canada Press, 2015), 71-75.

“Showing Support: Some Reflections on Vancouver’s Dance Economies,” Canadian Theatre Review 162 (2015): 10-15.
“Cédric Andrieux: With Bel, Benjamin, and Brecht in Vancouver,” TDR: The Drama Review 58.3 (T223) (2014): 162-169.
“PuShing Performance Brands in Vancouver,” Theatre Research in Canada 35.2 (2014): 130-150.
“Textual Matters: Making Narrative and Kinesthetic Sense of Crystal Pite’s Dance-Theatre,” Dance Research Journal 46.1 (2014): 61-83.
“Murdered and Missing Women: Performing Indigenous Cultural Memory in British Columbia and Beyond,” Theatre Survey 55.2 (2014): 202-232.
With Anne Higgins, Paul St. Pierre, Diana Solomon, and Sean Zwagerman, “Introduction: Dorothy Parker’s Headache,” in Women and Comedy: History, Theory, Practice, eds. Peter Dickinson, Anne Higgins, Paul St. Pierre, Diana Solomon, and Sean Zwagerman (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2014), xvii-xxxvii.

“Try This at Home,” in Women and Comedy: History, Theory, Practice, eds. Peter Dickinson, Anne Higgins, Paul St. Pierre, Diana Solomon, and Sean Zwagerman (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2014), 219-26.

“Counting Time in The Law of Enclosures,” in The Perils of Pedagogy: The Works of John Greyson, eds. Brenda Longfellow, Thomas Waugh, and Scott MacKenzie (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2013), 450-61.

“Reading Canadian Film Credits: Adapting Institutions, Systems, and Affects,” in Double Takes: Intersections Between Canadian Literature and Film, ed. David Jarraway (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2013), 113-37.
“Bill Richardson,” in Canadian Literary Humorists, ed. Paul Matthew St. Pierre (Detroit: Gale, 2011), 214-21.

"Love is a Battlefield: The Performance and Politics of Same-Sex Marriage in North America," Text and Performance Quarterly 28.3 (2008): 277-97.
"Riding in Cars with Boys: Reconsidering Smooth Talk," Literature/Film Quarterly 36.3 (2008): 202-214.
"Being at home with Roy Dupuis and Pascale Bussières, or, Star-Gazing In and Out of Québec," CinéAction 73/74 (2008): 38-43.
"Double Take: Adaptation, Remediation, and Doubleness in the Films of Robert Lepage," in Great Canadian Film Directors, ed. George Melnyk (Edmonton: U of Alberta Press, 2007), 175-96.

"Subtitling CanLit: Keywords," in Trans.Can.Lit: Resituating the Study of Canadian Literature, eds. Smaro Kamboureli and Roy Miki (Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2007), 45-54.

"Ghosts In and Out of the Machine: Lesbian Citationality and Narrative Cinema," in Lesbian Voices: Theory, Literature, Cinema, ed. Subhash Chandra (New Delhi: Allied Publishers Ltd., 2006), 274-295.

"Going West: Queer Theatre in BC," in Theatre in British Columbia, ed. Ginny Ratsoy (Toronto: Playwrights Canada Press, 2006), 203-217.

"Travels with Tony Kushner and David Beckham, 2002-2004," Theatre Journal 57.3 (2005): 429-450.
"Oscar Wilde: Reading the Life after the Life," Biography 28.3 (2005): 414-432.
"Space, Time, Auteur-ity, and the Queer Male Body: The Film Adaptations of Robert Lepage," Screen 46.2 (2005): 133-153. Reprinted in Queer Screen: The Screen Reader, eds. Jackie Stacey and Sarah Street (London: Routledge, 2007), 183-207.
"Cities and Classrooms, Bodies and Texts: Notes Towards a Resident Reading (and Teaching) of Vancouver Writing," in Downtown Canada: Writing Canadian Cities, eds. Justin Edwards and Douglas Ivison (U of Toronto P, 2005), 78-103.

"Brothers' Keepers, or, The Performance of Mourning: Queer Rituals of Remembrance," torquere 6 (2004): 12-46. Reprinted in Queer Theatre in Canada, ed. Rosalind Kerr (Toronto: Playwrights Canada Press, 2007), 134-59.
"Duets, Duologues, and Black Diasporic Theatre: Djanet Sears, William Shakespeare, and Others," Modern Drama 45.2 (Summer 2002 [published 2003]): 188-208.Reprinted in Canadian Shakespeare, ed. Susan Knutson (Toronto: Playwrights Canada Press, 2010); and Canadian Adaptations of Shakespeare, an on-line scholarly database produced by the University of Guelph (www.canadianshakespeares.ca).
"Critically Queenie: The Lessons of Fortune and Men's Eyes," Canadian Journal of Film Studies 11.2 (2002): 19-43.
“Introduction: Reading Movies,” Literatures, Cinemas, Cultures. Ed. Peter Dickinson. Spec. issue of Essays on Canadian Writing 76 (2002): 1-45.

“Derek McCormack: In Context and Out,” Essays on Canadian Writing 73 (2001): 51-71.
“Canada: Gay Male Literature,” in Reader’s Guide to Lesbian and Gay Writing, ed. Timothy Murphy (Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000), 111-112.

“’Running Wilde’: National Ambivalence and Sexual Dissidence in Timothy Findley’s Not Wanted on the Voyage,” Essays on Canadian Writing 64 (1998): 125-46.

“Gay literature 1: Fiction and non-fiction” and “Gay literature 2: Drama,” in Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature, 2nd edition, gen. eds. Eugene Benson and William Toye (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1997), 449-52.

With Richard Cavell, “Bucke, Whitman, and the Cross-Border Homosocial,” Special joint issue of the American Review of Canadian Studies 26.3 and the Canadian Review of American Studies 26.3 (1996): 424-448. Winner of the 1995 Northeast Modern Language Association Essay Prize in Lesbian and Gay Studies.

“’Go-go dancing on the brink of the apocalypse’: Representing AIDS: An Essay in
Seven Epigraphs,” in Postmodern Apocalypse: Theory and Cultural Practice at the End, ed. Richard Dellamora (Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 1995), 219-240.

“’Orality in Literacy’: Listening to Indigenous Writing,” Canadian Journal of Native Studies 14.2 (1994): 319-40.