Living the Liminal

I wrote the following several years ago while in the midst of an ill-suited MFA program in Theatre Pedagogy. Looking at it now I feel slightly sad that I am no longer on an academic track because there are so many things that needed to be changed in so many theatre departments.
I still believe everything [...]

I just came across this great YouTube video by Iconoclashing that illustrates some of Donna Haraway’s “A Cyborg Manifesto.” I wonder if it’s the only music video for an academic essay? Check it out:

Is over!!! At least for a while. For those of you who don’t know, I am taking a leave of absence from CUNY’s The Graduate Center as I pursue creative goals and figure out if I do indeed want a Ph.D. in Theatre.
Last night was my last class and I turned in my last paper [...]

It’s been a while since I’ve posted any of my homework, but I have been working on this for a while now and thought I’d share.
Basically, this is the first half of an assignment for a seminar on radical pedagogy and Paulo Freire.
One key practice in Freirean pedagogy is ‚??reading [...]

I realized last night that the majority of conversations I have ever had as a graduate student are not deep, intellectually exciting conversations about the meaning of theatre and life and art … rather they are about 1) being overworked 2) bitching about how graduate school sucks up your life 3) details of assignments 4) [...]

I realized I haven’t really taken a moment to talk about my classes and coursework this semester. To start with, here are the course descriptions for the classes I’m taking …
THEA 70100 - Theatre Research and Bibliography (Professor [...]

Community
I remember, so many years ago, talking with Catherine T. about grad programs. Probably bitching about Maryland‚??s at the time. She told me that she was really happy with the program and that there was so much less politics going on and that the community at UMD was much stronger than other places. I don‚??t [...]

So we have been settling into the apartment slowly. Friday, I saw Lisa’s play In the Belly of the Beast with Two Backs at the Here Arts Center. It was an interesting piece with some nice moments and I would like to talk with her more about it at some point. Bumped into Liza [...]

Check out this story about new Greek & Roman texts being deciphered - we may have at least portiions of new plays by Sophocles andEuripedes!!
I smell dissertations in the air . . .

1. The phrase ‚??politically correct‚?? immediately short-circuits any possibility of dialogue.
1a. Folded into the phrase ‚??politically correct‚?? is the assumption that the person who is being ‚??politically correct‚?? has no right to his or her feeling about a subject. This is a particularly dangerous assumption if one wants to value egalitarianism, multiculturalism or [...]