This dissertation examines how Black world-making strategies perform sustainability in Miami, Florida. According to environmental reports, the city of Miami will be underwater by 2100. …
This project is a critical inquiry into the material, moving, and mediated bodies of the contemporary carceral state. Body Assembly argues that carceral power is …
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 …
“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 …
We sit within the confines of a shipping container, where people are rendered commodity and turf is marked for value. Chula and Pal create competition …
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 …
This dissertation models an alternative to the epistemic objectification of Islam in Euro-American discourses of theatre history and performance theory. Historicizing these discourses’ conceptualization of …
In this dissertation, I propose majoritarian decolonization. By majoritarian I mean that decolonization cannot be an endeavor for Indigenous and minoritized peoples to carry on …
In 1962, the American painter Mark Rothko donated five wall-sized paintings to Harvard University that he created for a penthouse dining room in the newly …
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 …
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 …
Normally, we think of theatre and television as different modes or genres, and even as diametrically opposed; Theatre Crossing Television analyses the theatre-like qualities of …
