Seminar in Performance Studies and Theatrical Theory

Key texts in Performance Studies and Theatre Theory selected from works by ancient, modern, and contemporary philosophers, dramatists, performers, and theorists. Covers basic methodological trends crucial to thinking about mimesis and alterity, acting and actants, identity formation and disidentification, decolonial theory and feminist theory in relationship to the study of performance, performativity, drama and theatricality. Enrollment limited to 20.