School of Creative Arts
Director, School of Creative Arts
Creative Arts
Abbotsford campus, C1402A
Phone: 604.504.7441 x6367
email HeatherHeather Davis-Fisch is cross-appointed faculty in the Theatre and English departments at UFV. On May 3, 2019, she became the Director of the newly minted School of Creative Arts.
She received her PhD from the School of English and Theatre Studies at the University of Guelph. Before coming to UFV, she was a SSHRC postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Theatre and Film at the University of British Columbia and previously taught at the University of British Columbia, Brock University, and the University of Guelph.
Heather is the author of Loss and Cultural Remains in Performance: The Ghosts of the Franklin Expedition (Palgrave 2012), which was the co-recipient of the 2013 Ann Saddlemyer award from the Canadian Association for Theatre Research. She is the editor of Canadian Performance Histories and Historiographies (New Essays in Canadian Theatre Vol. 7) and Past Lives: Performing Canada's Histories (Playwrights Canada Press 2017). Her research on Canadian theatre and performance history has also appeared in Theatre Research in Canada, Performing Arts Resources, Cultural Studies/Critical Methodologies, Canadian Theatre Review, and in several edited collections. She is also the co-editor of the Views and Reviews section of Canadian Theatre Research and recently edited a special edition of CTR on Commemoration.
Heather’s current research interests include intercultural and Indigenous performance, nineteenth-century theatre, Canadian theatre history, and performance studies.
Davis-Fisch, Heather. “Enacting Civility Through Comic Opera; or, Nation, Race, and Ned McGowan’s War.” Cultural Studies/Critical Methodologies, vol.16, no.1, Feb. 2016, pp. 18-27. EBSCOhost, doi: 10.1177/1532708615615610.
Daivs-Fisch, Heather. “Lawless Lawyers: Indigeneity, Civility, and Violence.” Theatre Research in Canada, vol.35, no.1, Spring 2014, pp. 31-48.
Barker, Roberta, Davis-Fisch, Heather, et al. “Canadian Performance Genealogies: A Roundtable.” Theatre Research in Canada, vol.35, no.1, Spring 2014, pp. 89-102.
Davis-Fisch, Heather. “Girls in “White” Dresses, Pretend Fathers: Interracial Sexuality and Intercultural Community in the Canadian Arctic.” Theatre Research In Canada, vol.31, no.1, Spring 2011, pp. 84-106.
Davis-Fisch, Heather. “Aglooka’s Ghost: Apparitions in the Archive.” Performing Arts Resources, vol.28, 2011, pp. 135-142.
Davis-Fisch, Heather. Loss and Cultural Remains in Performance: The Ghosts of the Franklin Expedition. Palgrave Macmillan, 2012
Carter, J., Davis-Fisch, H., and Knowles, R. “Circulations: Visual Sovereignty, Transmotion, and Tribalography.” A Cultural History of Theatre in the Modern Age, Vol. 6, edited by Kim Solga, Bloomsbury, 2017.
Davis-Fisch, Heather. “Xeyxelomos and Lady Franklin Rock: Place Naming, Performance Historioraphy, and Settler Methodologies.” Performance Studies in Canada, edited by Laura Levin and Marlis Schweitzer, McGill-Queens, 2017.
Davis-Fisch, Heather. “Complicated Feelings: Tecumseh as Literary Land Claim.” New Essays in Canadian Theatre, Vol. 4: Theatres of Affect, edited by Erin Hurley, Playwrights Canada Press, 2014.
“Canadian Performance Histories and Historiographies: Essays.” New Essays in Canadian Theatre, Playwrights Canada Press, 2017.
“Past Lives: Performing Canada’s Histories.” Playwrights Canada Press, 2017.