Research/creative activities: Canadian plays by women; contemporary plays that deal with current social issues; directing and acting. Shelley Scott teaches Theatre History, Canadian Theatre, special topics courses in Dramatic Literature and Theory, and occasionally directs department productions. She graduated from the University of Lethbridge in 1986, with a BA in Drama (great distinction). She won the gold medal as outstanding graduate from the Faculty of Arts and Science, and the Charles S. Noble award for student leadership. Shelley moved to Toronto where she earned a MA and Ph.D. from the Graduate Centre for Study of Drama at the University of Toronto, and taught at the University of Guelph before returning to Lethbridge in fall 1998. Shelley's major area of research interest is Canadian women playwrights. Her PhD thesis was a study of Nightwood, a feminist theatre company in Toronto. Shelley is an active member in the Association for Canadian Theatre Research and has published in academic journals including Modern Drama, Canadian Theatre Review, Theatre Research in Canada, and the British Journal of Canadian Studies. In February 2007 her book "The Violent Woman as a New Theatrical Character Type: Cases from Canadian Drama" was published by The Edwin Mellen Press.