Seminar: Problems in Performance Studies (515-0-2)

Topic

Performance Ethnography

Instructors

Dotun Ayobade

Meeting Info

AM Swift Krause Studio 103: Tues 11:00AM - 1:50PM

Overview of class

This graduate-level course introduces performance ethnography as a critical and creative research method situated at the intersection of performance studies, anthropology, and the humanities. The course examines how embodied practices—performance, storytelling, ritual, and everyday action— shape (and might be shaped by) ethnographic inquiry. Through readings, presentations, dialogue, and performance workshops, students will engage key concepts including reflexivity, positionality, affect, ethics of representation, and critical approaches to ethnographic work