Susan Bennet

April 07, 2026

Susan Bennett (Professor Emerita, University of Calgary) has been a prolific researcher in the field of theatre and performance studies. She is the author/editor of 9 books with special interests in contemporary performance and in women and theatre. Susan is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, a past President of the Association for Canadian Theatre Research, and she received the Distinguished Scholar Award from the American Society for Theatre Research. At the University of Calgary, she served as Associate Dean Research and as Acting Director of the Calgary Institute for the Humanities. Among the many boards to which she’s contributed are the Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of Canada, Broadview Press, and in the 1990s, Calgary’s first (and only) feminist theatre company, Maenad.