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What is Performance Studies? Spring 2008 courses @ NYU

If you're a student in the doctoral consortium (Columbia, NYU, Fordham, CUNY, Princeton) who is looking for a class to take next semester, the following graduate courses are being offered in NYU's department of performance studies :

  1. Performance of History: Revolutions (Tavia Nyong'o)
  2. Topics in Queer Theory: Queer Trajectories (Ann Pellegrini)
  3. Performance Theory: Affect (Jose Esteban Munoz)
  4. Performance Theory: Deleuze, Guattari & Performativity (Andre Lepecki)
  5. Topics in Critical Theory: Critical Race Theory (Tavia Nyong'o)
  6. Tourist Productions (Barbara Kirshenblatt Gimblett)
  7. Experimental Performance: 1950-Present (Richard Schechner)
  8. Topics in Music and Performance: Performing Brazil (Barbara Browning)
  9. Drama, Theater and Performance: Theories of Spectatorship (Diana Taylor)
  10. Topics in Performing Culture: Religious and Secular Modernities (Deborah Kapchan)
  11. Studies in Dance: Dance and Visual Arts, Post World War II (Andre Lepecki)
  12. Topics in Performance Studies: Sense, Imagination, Affect (Deborah Kapchan)
  13. Gender and Performance: Religion, Gender, and Violence (Ann Pellegrini)