The Theatrical Professoriate: Contemporary Higher Education and Its Academic Dramas

ISBN-13: 9781032083377 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 188 str.

Emily Roxworthy

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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).