PhD in Performance Studies - University of Alberta

[Piet Defraeye]

We are happy to announce that the Alberta Government and the
University of Alberta have approved a PhD in Performance Studies, to
be housed within the Dept. of Drama.

The program foregrounds research on a range of activities that places
performance on a continuum of cultural discourse and cultural
expression. We will encourage PhD candidates to embrace an activist
method of research, which refuses and supersedes the “deeply
entrenched division of labor, apartheid of knowledges, that plays out
inside the academy as the difference between thinking and doing,
interpreting and making, conceptualizing and creating” (Dwight
Conquerhood).

The Dept. of Drama at the University of Alberta (www.drama.ualberta.ca
) has a BA and BA (Honors) in Drama, and BFA programs in Acting,
Design, Technical Theatre and Stage Management. It offers graduate
studies within its MA (thesis & course-based), and MFA (Directing,
Design, Theatre Practice).
The new PhD is a small-intake, 4 year program, and requires 1 year of
course-work, followed by practice-based research, field exams and a
doctoral thesis. During the course of their program, students will
also have opportunities in teaching and collaborative research.

Application deadline for September 2012 start is March 30.
Interested students are encouraged to contact the Department of Drama.

Administrative Inquiries: Salena Kitteringham salena.kitteringham at ualberta.ca
Program Inquiries: Dr. Piet Defraeye defraeye at ualberta.ca



-- 
Prof. Dr. Piet Defraeye
Dept. of Drama
FAB 3-146
University of Alberta
Edmonton, AB
T6G 2C9 - Canada

ph: 780-492.1097
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