In this seminar, we explore the ethics and methodologies of conducting creative research. In doing so, we reconsider misleading divisions between scholarship and art, theory and narration, histories and memories, as well as research and teaching to disrupt the hierarchical structures of knowledge production. The course is two-fold. First, we engage in in-depth discussions with guest speakers from various disciplines. In doing so, we think with these scholar-artists in Theatre & Performance Studies, Ethnic Studies, Feminist Studies, Disability Studies, Decolonial Studies, and Critical University Studies to contemplate care- and community-centered ways to document, narrate, theorize, teach, as well as historicize. Additionally, as a collective, we develop and workshop the public-facing projects that each participant pursues. The methodologies that we work with include but are not limited to ethnography, autotheory, op-eds, oral history, visual art, digital humanities, installation, multimedia production, filmmaking, critical memoir, immersive performance, and interactive syllabus & course design. Our goal is to support your creative voices, and help you identify and formulate tools that are most respectful of and appropriate for the communities that you strive to serve.
Spring 2025 (2254)
THEA 2216-30961
Number of Credits
3