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Theatre and Performance Studies Across Campus

Besides the productions of the department itself, performance work flourishes in other places on campus. There is a performance space, run by the student group "Production Workshop" that is largely an undergraduate space, but graduate students have directed work there, or participated in production. Africana Studies houses Rites and Reason, a vital and active theatre on campus, and part of the Consortium of Theatre Programs at Brown.

The Literary Arts Department offers readings and sometimes performative events and digital art in their McCormack Family Theatre and the MEME graduate program in experimental music often has considerable performance-based work to engage throughout the year. A new building is being built that will be entirely dedicated to "intermedial arts" and will house perfomrance spaces. For more on this building see Creative Arts Center.

As the Speech program is part of the Theatre Arts and Performance Studies Department, excellent opportunities for communications studies and the performance studies intersections between rhetoric and theatre exist.

Historically, doctoral graduate students have regularly held assistantships in Speech.

There are often special year or semester-long faculty seminars offered by groups of faculty from various disciplines on topics of interest for Theatre and Performance Studies graduate students. Such seminars are sponsored by Brown's Wayland Colloquium, by the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women, or by the Cogut Center for the Humanities. Graduate students are often welcome to apply to participate. Some topics from previous years:

Emotion; Embodiment; Incarceration, Narrative and Performance; Shame; Digital Arts; Theatre and Social Change; Gesture.

 

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