Dr. Granshaw received a 2024 Franklin Research Grant from the American Philosophical Society in support her book project, The Fight for Desegregation: Race, Freedom, and the Theatre After the Civil War.

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At the ASTR 2022 annual conference, Dr. Granshaw received a 2022 ASTR Research Fellowship in support of her second book, The Fight for Desegregation: Race, Freedom, and American Theatre after the Civil War.

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Dr. Granshaw is honored to receive the 2021 Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences Excellence in Graduate Mentoring (tenured category).

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Dr. Granshaw was delighted to give a talk, “Dramaturgies in Practice: Irish-American Theatre and Performances of Mobility," at the University of Lille on March 4, 2021.

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Theatre Survey has published Dr. Granshaw’s “Performing the Northern Athens: Dr. Corry’s Diorama of Ireland and the Belfast Riot of 1864” in its latest issue (61.1, January 2020). The article is part of one of Dr. Granshaw’s in-progress book projects. It is freely accessible here.

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Irish on the Move made its debut at ASTR 2019!

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Dr. Granshaw contributed the plate, “Theatrical Boston, 1880-1930” to The Atlas of Boston History, edited by Nancy Seasholes.

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Dr. Granshaw’s first book, Irish on the Move: Performing Mobility in American Variety Theatre published by the University of Iowa Press is available for preorder!

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At the end of April, Dr. Granshaw was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure, effective September 2019.

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Dr. Granshaw published a new article from her forthcoming book, Dramaturgies of Mobility in Irish American Performance, in Popular Entertainment Studies 9, no.1-2 (2018). Her article is available online here.

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This June, Dr. Granshaw will be in Ireland and Northern Ireland attending and researching contemporary Irish theatre and performance for the development of two new courses for the 2018-2019 and 2019-2020 academic years.

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Dr. Granshaw won the Robert A. Schanke Theatre Research Award during the Mid-America Theatre Conference Luncheon.

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At ASTR 2016, Dr. Granshaw was awarded the David Keller Travel Award in support of her attendance at the annual conference.

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Dr. Granshaw's new article, “Performing Cultural Memory: The Traveling Hibernicon and the Transnational Irish Community in the United States and Australia” is now available in Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film.

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The American Theatre and Drama Society awarded Dr. Granshaw the 2014 Vera Mowry Roberts Research and Publication Award for her essay, "The Mysterious Victory of the Newsboys: The Grand Duke Theatre's 1874 Challenge to the Theatre Licensing Law" in Theatre Survey.

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Theatre Survey's special issue on microhistory (January 2014) is now live and includes Dr. Granshaw's article, "The Mysterious Victory of the Newsboys."

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Michelle Granshaw is in her first year on the theatre arts faculty at the University of Pittsburgh. She is one of two recipients of the Hibernian Research Award this year, and she recently explained to us what the hibernicon is and gave us an update on her book project.

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