Creative Epistemologies: Experiments in Knowledge Production

3.0 credits · Graduate

This course is a site of exploration and praxis in creative/critical knowledge production. Drawing from anthropology, feminist studies, and Black studies, we will examine scholarship that advances creative epistemologies and reimagines the relationship between creativity, critique, and theory building. Course materials will include ethnographic, autoethnographic, autotheoretical, experimental, and public-facing texts, along with graphic ethnographies and multimodal visual and audio projects. What does creative/critical knowledge production allow us to understand that conventional scholarly modes are not designed to illuminate? How do creative/critical practices enable us to tell new stories, reach different audiences, and build new communities? Students will examine these questions theoretically and practice producing knowledge through creative/critical modalities.