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To familiarize students with different approaches to performance studies as they apply to the study of literature, theater, film and media. 

This seminar sets out to explore performative dimensions in a variety of art forms and media, including written and oral literatures, theater, music, cinema, video, digital media, and installation art. We will approach notions of performativity through an interdisciplinary framework that draws on insights  from anthropology, linguistics, sociology, gender studies, film and media studies. We will examine the cultural relevance of perfomance as processes and practices that generate and innovate forms of knowledge, mediation, and critical interventions. 

presentations, discussions, reading and writing assignments, research paper 

active participation, presentation, research paper/response paper 

A list of filmic and literary works will be distributed in the first session of class.

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The seminar "SE American Literature and Culture" can be attended as the "SE American Literature and Culture II". If you wish to obtain credits for both seminars, the seminars' contents must differ substantially.