About ENGL 3100 A
Advanced study in literary genres, forms, and themes. Representative topics: Noir in Fiction and Film; Great American Race Novel; Post-Apocalyptic Fiction. May be repeated for credit with different content. Topics vary by offering; periodic offering at intervals that may exceed four years. Credit not awarded for both ENGL 3100 and ENGL 5100. Prerequisites: ENGL 1500, ENGL 2000; English major, Secondary Education with a concentration in English, or English minor; minimum Junior standing.
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Prereqs enforced by the system: ENGL 1500 and 2000
Section Description
This course examines theatre and performance that extend beyond human-centered storytelling to explore the agency of nonhuman actors, environments, and systems. Through plays such as Sila (Chantal Bilodeau), Far Away (Caryl Churchill), Estado Vegetal (Manuela Infante with Marcela Salinas), and others, students will investigate how narrative, stagecraft, and spectatorship change when humans are not the sole protagonists. Alongside an examination of plays, performance art, and environmentally engaged installation art, students will have the opportunity to participate in a hands-on workshop with a sound designer and digital animator on strategies for developing more-than-human performance. If there is interest, students can also develop their own performance or creative piece as a final project. The course also engages key theoretical perspectives on posthumanism, multispecies entanglement, and ecological dramaturgy to illuminate the evolving relationships between humans and the more-than-human world in the context of theatre and performance.
*** note: More-than-human dramaturgy is a performance theory and practice that extends dramaturgical agency beyond humans, treating nonhuman entities (animals, materials, environments, technologies) as co agents in the shaping of performance. It questions anthropocentric narrative forms, fosters relational and ecological awareness, and creates dramaturgical structures that emerge through entanglements rather than human dominance.
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