This dissertation focuses on crises of extractive capitalism as they relate to the migrant, laboring body. Roughly spanning the first three-quarters of the 20th century, …
Lester Horton created a racially integrated company during a time of profound racial and cultural segregation, and his decision to live alongside artists of different …
This thesis explores the usage of surveillance as a framework for dramaturgy and production in Yussef El Guindi’s BACK OF THE THROAT, produced by Brown …
“Decolonial Dreamwork: Spectatorship, Affect and Indigeneity in Performance” analyzes the use of performance art, dance and theater to consider the problem of colonial inheritance in …
This dissertation investigates the emergent genre of 'surveillance art,' or art works that centrally employ technologies and techniques of surveillance to create theatre, installation, and …
This dissertation investigates how theatricality and performance enter into the scene of contemporary Asian American cultural production. I argue that Asian American artists and writers, …
This dissertation reframes contemporary investments in political performance through an analysis of the politics and practices of the FTA, a GI-oriented antiwar variety show led …
This dissertation explores the construction of identity and difference through racial impersonation in Philadelphia’s theatre and performance history. Each chapter expands outward from a local …
This dissertation is based on five years of ethnographic research into New York and Texas-based immigration courtrooms and detention centers. The period of my research …
Theatre architecture reform in the second half of the eighteenth century in France shows the cross-infiltration of philosophical and scientific discourses with those generated by …
This dissertation examines the ongoing movement histories of settler colonialism, focusing on the problem of white-settler spectatorship in 21st-century Canada. It frames white-settler spectatorship as …
“Performing Disemployment” argues that theatre and performance practices emerged as the critical nexus between disability politics and the politics of work in the United States …
This Dissertation explores the interaction of performance and warfare in the framework of colonial and post-colonial times. The issues in question unfold in relationship with …
This dissertation uses an early modern archive to reframe contemporary performance-studies debates about intermediality, spectatorship, and the performance of historiography, while making a specific intervention …
Abstract of Queer Times: Aesthetics, Performance, and Social Movements in South Korea, by Yeong Ran Kim, Ph.D., Brown University, October 2020 This dissertation explores the …
By abstracting concrete social practices into data vectors, machine intelligence measures, forecasts, and modulates human behaviors in the interest of capital. And as Cheney-Lippold writes, …
"Spectacular Secrecy” tracks the circulation of secrecy within British and American theatre of the long nineteenth century and early twentieth centuries. I focus on how …
