Jamie Paris

Dr. Jamie Paris is an Instructor II in the Department of English, Theatre, Film, and Media at the University of Manitoba, and an assistant editor for Early Theatre. He did his BA (hons) at the University of Winnipeg, his MA at the University of Regina, and his PhD at the University of British Columbia.

His scholarship is primarily on early modern literature focuses on whiteness and premodern critical race studies, and his secondary field in Black and Indigenous literatures in the lands now called Canada.

Books

(Forthcoming) Clothed Villainy: Acting White in Early Modern Drama.Strode Series at the University of Alabama Press, August 2026.

Paris was a member of the Land and Labour Editorial Collective with Melanie Dennis Unrau, Jenna Buttler, Samantha Jones, and Moni Brar, that edited “I’ll Get Right On It: Poems on Working Life in the Climate Crisis, edited by The Land and Labour Poetry Collective, with a forward by Anjali Appadurai: https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/ill-get-right-on-it.

Recent Scholarly Publications

"Becoming a Wolf: On Quitting, Indigenous Pedagogies, and Community Resilience in Sayet’s Where We Belong.”Literature Compass22, no. 3 (2025), E70030. https://doi.org/10.1111/lic3.70030.

“Astonished and Amazed: Early Modern English Black Christianity and Respectability Politics in Middleton’s and Munday’s The Triumphs of Truth.”InNone a Stranger There: England and/in Europe on the Early Modern Stage, edited by Scott Oldenburg and Matteo Pangallo. University of Alabama Press, 2025, 86–106. https://doi-org.uml.idm.oclc.org/10.2307/jj.30347559.7.

“Against Hope Labour in the Public Humanities.” Public Humanities 1 (2025): e 40, https://doi.org/10.1017/pub.2024.30.

“Bad Blood, Black Desires: On the Fragility of Whiteness in Middleton’s and Rowley’s The Changeling.” Early Theatre 24, no. 1 (2021): 113–37, https://doi.org/10.12745/et.24.1.3803.

“‘Mislike Me Not for My Complexion’: On Anti-Black Racism and Performative Whiteness in William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice.” Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies 20, no. 4 (2020): 34–61, https://doi.org/10.1353/jem.2020.0029.

“‘What Condition Will Not Miserable Men Accept?’: Hegemonic Masculinity in John Lyly’s Galatea.” Renaissance and Reformation 43, no. 1 (2020): 81–103. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26977541.

“‘Men Break When Things Like That Happen’: Indigenous Masculinities in Katherena Vermette’s The Break.” Canadian Literature 239 (2019): 68–84. https://doi.org/10.14288/cl.v0i239.191511.

Recent Public Humanities Work

“On Teaching Jonson’s The Masque of Blackness in an Anti-racist Classroom Environment.” The Sundial: Premodern Pasts, Inclusive Futures, https://medium.com/@acmrs/on-teachingjonsons-the-masque-of-blackness-in-an-anti-racist-classroom-4fee41741e15.

“On Teaching The Tempest in the Shadow of Unmarked Indian Residential School Graves.” The Sundial: Premodern Pasts, Inclusive Futures. https://medium.com/the-sundial-acmrs/onteaching-the-tempest-in-the-shadow-of-unmarked-indian-residential-school-gravesf6803fecbdda.

“Brave and Transgressive Appropriations Matter: A Review of ‘Exploring Othello in 2020’ for Red Bull Theatre.” Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriations15, no. 2 (2024): 81–85.https://doi.org/10.18274/bl.v15i2.389.

“Rethinking Masculinity: Teaching Men How to Love and Be Loved.” The Conversation. February 8, 2024. https://theconversation.com/rethinking-masculinity-teaching-men-how-tolove-and-be-loved-222253.

Recent Editorials

“The Exploitation Trap of Hope Labour.” University Affairs / Affaires Universitaires.

October 24, 2024. https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/in-my-opinion/the-exploitation-trap-ofhope-labour/.

“Universal Design for Learning for an Accessible Classroom.” The Manitobian. June 25, 2024. https://themanitoban.com/2024/06/un