Performance and Performativity (ENGLISH 313, TAPS 313)

FEMGEN

313

Instructors

Menon, J. (PI)

Section Number

Performance theory through topics including: affect/trauma, embodiment, empathy, theatricality/performativity, specularity/visibility, liveness/disappearance, belonging/abjection, and utopias and dystopias. Readings from Schechner, Phelan, Austin, Butler, Conquergood, Roach, Schneider, Silverman, Caruth, Fanon, Moten, Anzaldúa, Agamben, Freud, and Lacan. May be repeated for credit.

Course Link

http://explorecourses.stanford.edu/search?q=FEMGEN313

Grading

Letter (ABCD/NP)

Units

3-5

Academic Career

Graduate