| "Performing
(in) the Classroom:
Possibilities and Stakes of Encouraging Student Performance"
Wednesday January 19th
In this roundtable Juan Guerra (Associate Professor, English) and Andrea
Opitz (Doctoral Candidate, Comparative Literature) discuss the possibilities
and stakes of encouraging student performance in the classroom, especially
in the form of role-playing and dialogue-oriented assignments. Their goal
is to explore ways in which dramatic performance in the classroom allows
students to insinuate themselves into the university and its languages
of power. They are also interested in working to create conditions in
the classroom that invite students to engage in the rhetorical practice
of transcultural repositioning. Among the critical questions they will
consider in the roundtable are the following: How do written and/or performed
role-playing activities allow students to see themselves differently in
relation to academic and cultural discourses? And under what circumstances
can such activities prove ineffective or problematic?
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