New program in Performance Studies UC Davis

[Lynette Hunter]

Canadian Colleagues: we are just launching information about the new program
in Performance Studies here at University of California Davis (formerly the
PhD in Theatre and Dance).  I copy below material from the brochure, and
invite you to visit the website. We actively encourage Canadian students
(currently 3) and topics related to Canadian performance of any kind.
with regards, Lynette Hunter


*The University of California, Davis: Graduate Group in Performance
Studies/PFS*

Website: performancestudies.ucdavis.edu

The PFS Graduate Group is newly formed program (2009) that draws on
faculty from departments throughout the Division of Letters and
Science, with a focus on the Faculty of Humanities, Arts, and Cultural
Studies (HArCS). The Group is administered through the Arts
Administrative Unit, and students are housed in the Department of
their faculty Adviser in their first year and their Major Professor
thereafter. The PhD offers a mainstream focus on criticism, history
and theory, and for those with prior performance experience, the
potential for combining traditional scholarship with practice as
research.

*Current Core Faculty*
Seeta Chaganti, Chair of Designated Emphasis (schaganti at ucdavis.edu)
Maxine Craig, Embodiments (mbcraig at ucdavis.edu)
Lynette Hunter, Chair/Main Program Adviser, Interactive Medias
(lhunter at ucdavis.edu)
Halifu Osumare, Cultures/Ecologies (hosumare at ucdavis.edu)
Jon Rossini, Admissions (jdrossini at ucdavis.edu)

*The Program*
The PFS Program offers a PhD in studies of performance focusing on the
history, theory, and literature of performance and its relation to
cultures past and present, in three distinct strands: Interactive
Medias, Embodiments, and Cultures/Ecologies. Training students for
scholarly research, academic work and a wide range of career choices,
the program's definition of performance embraces a variety of human
activities. In keeping with the most recent changes in advanced
studies of performance, the rigorous, strongly interdisciplinary
program encourages students to develop original dissertation research
that explores and questions the artistic, social and political
ramifications of performance and the performative.

Interactive Medias
Historical and theoretical study of socially and technologically
mediated performative communication in film, radio, television, music
and sound, digital media, human and animal movement, the internet,
writing and print, labor, politics and activism. It attends to
critical junctures of formal, philosophical, performative, and social
approaches.

Embodiments
Embodied performance encourages scholarship on bodies as
sociocultural, political, physiological, psychological, and virtual
entities in performance and performative contexts past and present. It
is relevant to students and scholars of history, sociology, theatre
and dance, religious, cultural, critical race, gender, and ethnic
studies.

Cultures/Ecologies
Culture as a learned collective process of becoming that engages the
traditional past with the contemporary “new,” augmented by the
increasing awareness that global environmental interdependence can
bind beyond cultural differences. It encourages a perspective of
culture and ecology that allows critical engagement with paradigms of
performance as well as emerging models of ethnography and
sustainability.

Administrator: Victoria Dye (vedye at ucdavis.edu)

*Who works at UCD PFS:*

Moradewun Adejunmobi, African and African American Studies
Nicole Asquith, French
Inez Hernandez Avila, Native American Studies
Gina Bloom, English
Lawrence Bogad, Performance Studies
Seeta Chaganti, English
Xiaomei Chen, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Elizabeth Constable, Women and Gender Studies
Lucy Corin, Creative Writing/English
Maxine Craig, Women and Gender Studies
Della Davidson, Theatre and Dance
Jesse Drew, Technocultural Studies
Joe Dumit, Anthropology
Frances Dyson, Art: Technoculture
Gail Finney, Comparative Literature and German
Jaime Fisher, German
Laura Grindstaff, Sociology
Noah Gyunn, French
Lynette Hunter, Performance Studies
Douglas Kahn, Technocultural Studies
Susan Kaiser, Women and Gender Studies
Caren Kaplan, Cultural Studies
Elisabeth Krimmer, German
Peter Lichtenfels, Theatre and Dramatic Art
Sheldon Lu, Comparative Literature and Chinese
Adrienne Martin, Spanish and Portugese
Darrin Martin, Technocultural Studies
Luz Mena, Women and Gender Studies
Zoila Mendoza, Native American Studies
Colin Milburn, English
Elizabeth Miller, English
Michael Neff, Technocultural Studies and Computer Science
Bob Ostertag, Technocultural Studies
Halifu Osumare, African American and African
Lynn Roller, Art History
Annabeth Rosen, Art Studio
Jon Rossini, Performance Studies
Simon Sadler, Art History
Scott Shershow, English
Eric Smoodin, American Studies
Henry Spiller, Ethnomusicology
Smriti Srinivas, Anthropology
Blake Stimson, Art History
Archana Venkatesan, Religious Studies
Julie Wyman, Technocultural Studies

*Who Studies at UCD PFS*:

Sampada Aranke (political interventions, performance theory)
Sylvie Bissonnette (digital images of the body, phenomenology)
Claire Blackstock (religious ritual and performance)
Dylan Bolles (storytelling, Korean p’ansori, musical experimentation)
Hilary Bryan (choreography, expressionism, modernism, Laban)
Amy Champ (ritual movement, yoga, Asian religions)
Stephanie Cecilio Cooper (gender, ethnicity and performance)
Jess Curtis (choreography, ability, aesthetics)
Nina Galin (somatics, theatre, economics)
Elizabeth Galindo (costume in historical film)
Sean Feit (experimental and performative music/sound)
Nina Galin (somatics, theatre, economics)
Elizabeth Galindo (costume in historical film)
Keith Hennessy (choreography, politics and gender)
Nita Little (movement, improvisation, embodiment theory)
Zelma Long (generational transmission of performance practice)
Chris McCoy (political theatre, queer performance)
Kara Miller (South Asian dance traditions, film, choreography)
Jorge Morejon (Cuban American performance rituals)
Ilya Noé (site particular, walking, performance art)
Linda Noveroske (art, architecture, performative space)
Praba Pilar (gender, feminism, technology)
Sharon Pressburg (Irish Theatre)
Dennis Somera (storytelling, digital/film media)
Beth Stephens (environmental performance art, politics)
Nitza Tenenblat (theatre, directing, collaboration)

*Where Graduated Students (from 2005) Have Gone:*
Loyola, Duke, Wayne State, Pomona College, MEXT (Japan), San Jose
State, Calvin College

*Address:*
Graduate Group in Performance Studies
Wright Hall
University of California Davis
One Shields Ave.
Davis, CA 95616-8577
Administrator: Victoria Dye (vedye at ucdavis.edu)

-- 
Dr Lynette Hunter, Professor of the History of Rhetoric and Performance
Director, University of California Multicampus Research Group International
Performance and Culture
Chair, Graduate Group in Performance Studies
University of California Davis
Department of Theatre and Dance
Wright Hall
Davis, CA 95616
United States of America

Phone: 530 752 0888
Fax: 530 752 8818
email: lhunter at ucdavis.edu
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