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Patrick Finn

Positions

Associate Professor, Drama

Faculty of Arts, School of Creative and Performing Arts

Contact information

Email

pfinn@ucalgary.ca

Phone number

Office: +1 (403) 220-6455

Background

Educational Background

B.A. English Lang & Or Literature, McGill University, 1995

Bachelor of Arts English, McGill University, 1995

Doctor of Philosophy English Lang & Or Literature, University of Victoria, 2003

Master of Fine Arts Directing, The University of Calgary, 2009

M.F.A. Directing, University of Calgary, 2009

Ph.D. English, University of Victoria, 2003

Courses

Course number Course title Semester
CMDA 60102 LEC 01 01 Special Topics in CMDA 2020

Awards

  • Distinguished Alumni, University of Calgary. 2013
  • Teaching Excellence Award - Nominated, 2012
  • Teaching Excellence Award, Nominated, The University of Calgary. 2012
  • Teaching Excellence Award, 2011
  • Teaching Excellence Award, Nominated, The University of Calgary. 2011
  • Teaching Excellence Award, The University of Calgary. 2011
  • Top 40 Under 40, Calgary Inc. and The Globe and Mail. 2005
  • University of Victoria Excellence in Teaching Award, University of Victoria. 2002

Publications

  • The Politics of Culture: The Play's the Thing. Leslie Stratyner; Patrick Finn; James R. Keller. McFarland. 21-Jul. (2004)
  • Shakespeare’s Non-Conscious Moments. Patrick Finn; Paul Budra; Cliff Werier. Palgrave Macmillan. Not established yet. (2014)
  • The West Wing’s Textual President: American Constitutional Stability and the New Public Intellectual in the Age of Information. Peter C. Rollins; Patrick Finn; John E. O'Connor. Syracuse University Press. 101-124. (2003)
  • Ronnie Burket: The Word made Wood. Donna Coates; Patrick Finn; George Melnyk. Athabasca University Press. Not established yet. (2014)
  • Children’s Blocks: Machine Learning and the Analysis of Motion During Play. Ehud Sharlin; T Adachi; Y Kitamura; Patrick James Finn; M Ishikawa; X* Wang; K Takashima. Asian CHI Symposium at the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Asian CHI 2018; best poster/demo award). (2018)
  • Best Seat in the House: the Anatomy of Performance. Patrick Finn. Association for Canadian Theatre Research. (2004)
  • The Second Incunabulum: Editorial Theory and the Future of the Book. Patrick Finn. (2000)
  • Humanoid Robot Instructors for Industrial Assembly Tasks. Patrick James Finn; Mostafa A*; A Miede; D* Norman; T* Quitter; Ehud Sharlin. The ACM 5th International Conference on Human Agent Interaction (HAI 2017). 295-304. (2017)
  • Hypertextual Television: The Rhetorical Use of Space on NBC’s The West Wing. Patrick Finn. (2001)
  • Designing Action-Characterizing Toy Blocks for Behavior Assessments. Y Kitamura; K Takashima; Ehud Sharlin; T Adachi; X* Wang; Ishikawa M; Patrick James Finn. SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2018), Late Breaking Work (LBW). LBW513, pp. 1-6. (2018)
  • Bard Wars: Shakespeare at the End of Modernity. Patrick Finn. (2002)
  • Philology, Finitude, Feminism: Anne-Marie MacDonald’s Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) as a Presentist Work. Patrick Finn. (2005)
  • Measure Twice, Cut Once: What Theory Has to Offer the Digital Humanities. Patrick Finn. (2004)
  • Hamlet: Round or Flat?. Patrick Finn. (2002)
  • Half Life, Full Theory: Formalizing Video Game Criticism. Patrick Finn. (2002)
  • Bard Wars: Shakespeare at the End of Modernity. Patrick Finn. (2003)
  • The Culture of Politics: The Play’s the Thing. Patrick Finn. (2003)
  • @ the Table of the Great: Hospitable Editing and the Internet Shakespeare Editions Project. Patrick Finn. (2003)
  • Tanselle and Regr-et al: Searching the Archive for the Trail of the Author. Patrick Finn. (2003)
  • "Letters should not be knowne": The Mediations of Utopias in Shakespeare’s The Tempest. Patrick Finn. ACMRS. NA. (2004)
  • A Bridge Too Far: Anne Marie MacDonald’s Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet). Patrick Finn. (2007)
  • "Is there no respect of place, persons, nor time in you?": The Aristotelian Unities and the Staging of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. Patrick Finn. Association for Canadian Theatre Research. (2006)
  • Performing Citizenship: Upstaging Instrumentality in the Academy. Patrick Finn. Association for Canadian Theatre Research. (2005)
  • Liberal-Artist in Residence: The Role of the Technical Writer in Business. Patrick Finn. Venturing. (1999)
  • Reading Hamlet Reading. Patrick Finn. (2005)

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