<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><i class=""><span class="" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Hi all - Please forward to any prospective students who might be interested. Thanks!</span></i><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="" style="font-family: Tahoma;"><div class=""><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div class=""><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4" class="">The Graduate Program in Theatre & Performance Studies at York University (Toronto, Canada) is now accepting applications for Fall 2019. We offer two degrees, an <a target="_blank" href="http://theatre-studies.gradstudies.yorku.ca/ma-in-theatre-studies/" class="">MA</a> and <a target="_blank" href="http://theatre-studies.gradstudies.yorku.ca/phd/" class="">PhD</a>, both of which emphasize our collective interest in <a target="_blank" href="http://theatre-studies.gradstudies.yorku.ca/program-specializations/" class="">theatre, performance, cultural politics</a>, and <a target="_blank" href="http://theatre-studies.gradstudies.yorku.ca/practice-based-research/" class="">practice-based research</a>. <br class=""><br class="">For us, this means teaching classes that explore performance both onstage and in everyday life in order to highlight the cultural, political, material, and ideological dimensions of performance practices, both past and present. Studying performances across a broad range of cultural contexts--in theatres, galleries, rituals, the media, the streets, the political arena, mass spectacles, interpersonal interactions, etc.--helps to capture performance's potential to frame critically nuanced responses to public events, and thus to model politically and ethically engaged forms of public life. We invite prospective applicants to learn more about our <a target="_blank" href="http://theatre-studies.gradstudies.yorku.ca/why-tps/" class="">program's vision</a>, internationally renowned <a target="_blank" href="http://theatre-studies.gradstudies.yorku.ca/faculty/" class="">faculty research</a>, and our <a target="_blank" href="http://theatre-studies.gradstudies.yorku.ca/students/" class="">trailblazing students</a> on our website. <br class=""><br class="">The deadline to apply for the MA and PhD programs is <b class="">January 20, 2019. </b><br class=""><br class="">Other central features of our program include: <o:p class=""></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4" class=""><b class="">Critical Interdisciplinarity</b> — We encourage our students to develop a rigorous interdisciplinary understanding of theatre and performance by taking courses with faculty who come from a range of disciplines throughout the university. Our location within the <a target="_blank" href="http://ampd.yorku.ca/" class="">School of the Arts, Media, Performance, and Design</a> is essential to facilitating this approach, as the School’s curriculum is planned collaboratively each year to facilitate fluid movement among the programs, joint summer institutes and speaker series, and high-level interdisciplinary conversations across the arts. Students in our program also take advantage of interdisciplinary diploma programs that can be pursued in conjunction with our degrees (in Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Asian Studies, Refugee and Migration Studies, among other areas) and through a combined MA/MBA in Arts and Media Administration offered with the Schulich School of Business. <br class=""><br class=""><b class="">Practice-Based Research</b>— We are passionate about bridging the divide between theory and practice in the study of performance, and many of our graduate courses explore how performance practice serves as a vital form of critical inquiry, critical pedagogy, community-based research, and ethnography. In addition to coursework and research MA pathways, we offer a research-creation MA pathway. We also provide a wide range of opportunities for students to explore practice-based research as an approach and method to the study of performance at the PhD level. These courses take place in our state-of-the-art studios and in diverse cultural spaces throughout Toronto, and involve frequent collaborations with MFA students and faculty. </font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4" class=""><b class="">Professional Placements</b> — Our program provides exciting professional placement and fieldwork experiences for students at both the MA and PhD levels. Students receive course credit for working with leading theatre and performance companies, artists, festivals, journals, and conferences, both in Toronto and abroad. </font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4" class=""><b class="">Excellent funding packages </b>—York offers competitive funding packages to all qualified graduate students at the MA and PhD levels, providing fellowships that cover tuition and fees, and assist with other costs associated with full-time study. All full-time MA students are guaranteed one year of funding (for the one-year MA program), and all full-time PhD students are guaranteed funding for five years, with a sixth year of funding available to students who teach during their doctoral program. More details on graduate funding can be found <a target="_blank" href="http://gradstudies.yorku.ca/graduate-funding-model/" class="">here</a>. </font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4" class="">If you have questions about the Graduate Program in Theatre & Performance Studies or the application process, please visit our website (<a target="_blank" href="http://theatre-studies.gradstudies.yorku.ca/" class="">http://theatre-studies.gradstudies.yorku.ca/</a>) or contact <a target="_blank" href="mailto:gradthea@yorku.ca" class="">gradthea@yorku.ca</a>. </font></p></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div class=""><div class=""><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div class=""><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><p class="MsoNormal"><img id="<E353906A-09AF-44C4-A6A0-2688CE3DCE97>" alt="Graduate Program IN Theatre and performance studies.png" class="Apple-web-attachment Apple-edge-to-edge-visual-media Singleton" apple-inline="yes" src="cid:E353906A-09AF-44C4-A6A0-2688CE3DCE97"></p></div></div></div></div></div><div class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">Magdalena Kazubowski-Houston, PhD<br class="">Associate Professor | Department of Theatre<br class="">Graduate Program Director | MA/PhD Program in Theatre & Performance Studies<br class="">312 Centre for Film and Theatre (CFT) | 4700 Keele Street<br class="">Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3 Canada<br class="">Tel. (416) 736-2100 x 22257 |E: <a href="mailto:mkazubow@yorku.ca" class="">mkazubow@yorku.ca</a><br class=""><a href="http://theatre-studies.gradstudies.yorku.ca" class="">http://theatre-studies.gradstudies.yorku.ca</a><br class="">http://imaginativeethnography.org</div>
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