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Food and Performance (230-0-1)

Instructors

Lori Baptista

Meeting Info

AM Swift Krause Studio 103: Tues, Thurs 9:30AM - 10:50AM

Overview of class

In this course, we will use performance studies theories and methods to analyze what Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett describes as "the most ordinary and extraordinary food events." We will watch, read, listen to, collect, share and perform food stories. We will critically engage the evocative and dynamic potential of food -- in ethnographic and journalistic writings, poetry, memoirs, cookbooks, podcasts, streaming series, music, visual and performance art and other forms of material and expressive culture. We will consider the histories and circulations of particular foods alongside their social, political, and symbolic meanings, and attend to the ways that people use food to make sense of their place in the world.

Class Attributes

Undergraduate Students Only