Performance: Theory and Ethnography
Instructor: Professor Ellen Gray

Performance has been theorized from a wide range of academic disciplines including: cultural/social anthropology, linguistics, ethnomusicology, musicology, performance and cultural studies, and literary theory. Additionally, in the past decade, "performance" and "performativity" have been useful cross-disciplinary tools for thinking through categories such as gender, sexuality, identity and race and concepts of representation and power. This course treats performance (from performance in the arts to theories of performativity in the everyday) as a lens through which to understand relationships between expressive aesthetic practices and social life.  read more »