Performance studies of Solar Air Collector through Design of Experiment approach

In this brief essay, the author responds to a performative panel of essays by students of Devika Chawla. He situates his reading of the event betwixt and between typical modes of performance studies research, demonstrating how the panelists reveal narrative's power to reflect on the layering of time, power and privilege, and ways of knowing.

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A Performative Memoric Investigation of YoungGiftedandFat

Departures in Critical Qualitative Research ◽

10.1525/dcqr.2016.5.1.51 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

pp. 51-62

Author(s):

Sharrell D. Luckett ◽

Audrey Edwards ◽

Megan J. Stewart

Keyword(s):

African American ◽

Performance Studies ◽

African American Females ◽

Stage Manager ◽

The Arts ◽

Assistant Director ◽

Power Negotiations ◽

Research Collective

In 2013, Sharrell D. Luckett formed the Performance Studies & Arts Research Collective, which encourages members to explore their identities through the arts. Around this time, Audrey Edwards and Megan J. Stewart—both African American females and Collective members—became interested in autoethnography, and Luckett invited them to study closely with her. In this performative essay, Luckett, Edwards, and Stewart implicitly highlight various power negotiations enacted as professor/student, actress/stage manager, actress/assistant director, and mentor/mentee, while all working on their own autoethnographies, and while working collectively on Luckett's autoethnographic performance: YoungGiftedandFat.

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The Category Is . . . Opulence!

Kalfou A Journal of Comparative and Relational Ethnic Studies ◽

10.15367/kf.v7i1.321 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Joseph Plaster

Keyword(s):

Performance Studies ◽

Knowledge Creation ◽

People Of Color ◽

Gender Nonconforming ◽

Johns Hopkins University ◽

The Cross ◽

And Gender ◽

A Performance

In recent years there has been a strong “public turn” within universities that is renewing interest in collaborative approaches to knowledge creation. This article draws on performance studies literature to explore the cross-disciplinary collaborations made possible when the academy broadens our scope of inquiry to include knowledge produced through performance. It takes as a case study the “Peabody Ballroom Experience,” an ongoing collaboration between the Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries, the Peabody Institute BFA Dance program, and Baltimore’s ballroom community—a performance-based arts culture comprising gay, lesbian, queer, transgender, and gender-nonconforming people of color.

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