The Theatrical Professoriate - Emily Roxworthy

The Theatrical Professoriate

Contemporary Higher Education and Its Academic Dramas

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Buch | Softcover
188 Seiten
2021
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-08337-7 (ISBN)
48,60 inkl. MwSt
This book argues that today’s professoriate has become increasingly theatrical, largely as a result of neoliberal policies in higher education, but also in response to an anti-intellectual scrutiny that has become pervasive throughout the Western world.

The Theatrical Professoriate: Contemporary Higher Education and Its Academic Dramas examines how the Western professoriate increasingly finds itself enacting command performances that utilize scripting, characterization, surrogation, and spectacle—the hallmarks of theatricality—toward neoliberal ends. Roxworthy explores how the theatrical nature of today’s professoriate and the resultant glut of performances about academia on stage and screen have contributed to a highly ambivalent public fascination with academia. She further documents the "theatrical turn" witnessed in American higher education, as academic institutions use performance to intervene in the diversity issues and disciplinary disparities fueled by neoliberalism. By analyzing academic dramas and their audience reception alongside theoretical approaches, the author reveals how contemporary academia drives the professoriate to perform in what seem like increasingly artificial ways.



Ideal for practitioners and students of education, ethnic, and science studies, The Theatrical Professoriate deftly intervenes in Performance Studies’ still-unsettled debates over the differential impact of live versus mediated performances.

Emily Roxworthy is Associate Professor (Theatre and Dance) and Provost of Earl Warren College at the University of California, San Diego. She is the founder and artistic director of Workplace Interactive Theatre, and the author of The Spectacle of Japanese American Trauma: Racial Performativity and World War II, which received the Barnard Hewitt Award Honorable Mention from the American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR).

Acknowledgements Introduction: Introducing…the Theatrical Professoriate 1. #OscarsSoWhite and Historically White Universities 2. Academic Drama on Stage and Screen 3. Behind the Scenes of Academia’s Diversity Charades 4. Framing Science for the Death of the Humanities Conclusion: Diagnosing Academia’s Theatrical Turn Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 276 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Theater / Ballett
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Sport Tanzen / Tanzsport
Medizin / Pharmazie Physiotherapie / Ergotherapie Ergotherapie
Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Erwachsenenbildung
ISBN-10 1-032-08337-9 / 1032083379
ISBN-13 978-1-032-08337-7 / 9781032083377
Zustand Neuware
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