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Critical University Studies and Performance

Critical University Studies and Performance

Montez, Noe
Nereson, Ariel
Brewster, Shelby

Hardcover

Literary CriticismTheater History

ISBN10: 0826500331
ISBN13: 9780826500335
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Published: Jun 15 2026
Pages: 400
Weight: 1.14
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

Critical University Studies and Performance explores how we contend with issues of power, race, class, and gender in higher education, specifically as they relate to the complexities of theater and performance studies programs. In what ways might the fields of theater, performance, and dance studies, as they operate in institutions of higher education, support hegemonic logics as well as model reparative practices, given their perhaps unique disciplinary relationships to staging representation and their shared emphasis on embodiment as a practical and theoretical area of engagement?

Montez and Nereson bring together scholars with a diverse range of career experiences and embodied positions inside of higher learning in order to deepen the field's theoretical inquiry using an ethnic studies framework. By participating in the interdisciplinary discourse of critical university studies, the volume aims to explore how to conduct ethical research that critiques the university while remaining mindful of our always contingent place within it. The contributors examine the ways the university commodifies minoritarian knowledge, tokenizes the arts, and reproduces inequality. This book offers strategic ways to build liberatory communities and revolutionary networks among students and faculty alike in order to envision futures within and beyond the academy.

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