New grad program name

[Marlis Schweitzer]

We are pleased to announce that the Graduate Program in Theatre Studies 
at York is now the *Graduate Program in Theatre and Performance Studies*.

The change in program and degree name to Theatre and Performance Studies 
represents the culmination of a multi-year review process that has 
included the revision of our program sub-fields of specialization, 
changes to degree requirements, the arrival of new faculty, and the 
expansion of the graduate program membership to include colleagues from 
numerous departments across the university. We encourage our students to 
develop an interdisciplinary understanding of theatre and performance by 
taking courses, and working closely with, supervisory faculty who come 
from diverse backgrounds in a range of fields.

The Graduate Program in Theatre and Performance Studies offers two 
degrees, an MA and PhD, both of which emphasize our collective interest 
in *theatre, performance, and cultural politics. *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.

Our areas of program specialization, which structure our curriculum and 
degree requirements, reflect this focus. They include:

·Canadian Theatre and Cultural Politics

·Postcolonialism and Globalization

·Cultural Policy and Theatrical Economies

·Gender and Sexuality

·Embodiment and Cultural Memory

·Environment and Cultural Geography

·Critical Pedagogy and Community Engagement

·Intermediality and Technology

These areas foreground the spirit of political inquiry and 
practice-based experimentation central to the particular faculty 
research projects and centres that are connected to our program, 
including the Centre for Imaginative Ethnography 
<http://imaginativeethnography.org/>; Sensorium: Digital Arts and 
Technology Research <http://finearts.yorku.ca/sensorium>; Future Cinema 
Lab <http://futurecinema.ca/>, /In/Tensions 
<http://www.yorku.ca/intent/>; and the Performance Studies (Canada) 
Project <http://performancecanada.com/>.

We take seriously York's commitment to forging a just and sustainable 
world through critical and artistic inquiry and encourage our students 
to do the same.


For more information, please visit our program website at 
http://theatre-studies.gradstudies.yorku.ca/.

-- 
Marlis Schweitzer
Associate Professor
Department of Theatre &
Graduate Program Director
Graduate Program in Theatre & Performance Studies
York University
4700 Keele St.
Toronto, ON M3J 1P3
416-736-2100 x 66274





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