This unit aims to cover key issues involved in undertaking research in performance. To that end, we will follow four main strands of enquiry. We will investigate a range of methodologies of researching performance. We will read and discuss important ideas in researching performance. We will cavass issues to do with making, studying, analysing, and reflecting on actual performances. And we will look at the ways other disciplines such as anthropology, sociology, history and philosophy, utilise notions of performance and/or performativity to discuss and analyse topics in their discipline. Classes will take the form of a senminar discussion. They will include presentations be academic staff... -- Course Website
Instructor: Dr Stuart Grant
