Welcome to the Fall 2011 course blog Gender, Performance and the Body in Contemporary Latin America, an interdisciplinary graduate seminar offered by the Theatre Arts Department at the University of Pittsburgh.
In this seminar, we will explore intersections between cultural studies, theatre history and critical feminist and corporeal theory in Latin American theatre and performance. We will investigate four key areas:
1) the efficacy of corporeality (and/or corporeal theory) as a historiographical methodology, an analytical strategy and a site for public humanities praxis;
2) ontological implications of the theatrical and performative documentation and represenation of the gendered body in transnational relation to the state, violence, society, the academy and the market;
3) the circulation of representations and perceptions of Latin America and gender through North-South and East-West ideologies and hegemonies within the Americas and globally;
4) major works (and their disciplinary geneaologies) within the field of U.S. based scholarship on Latin American theatre and performance.
These broad and overlapping areas require not only our critical and creative engagement with representative artists, performance, productions and events. Our project also entails a perpetual interrogation of our individual and collective selves as artists, critics, teachers, scholars, colleagues, citizens.
Our blog will complement, extend and challenge our weekly discussions, projects and readings.
Header photo credit:
Fernández, Lorena. Production photograph of Mi vida después, by Lola Arias. E-Hemisférico 7.2. http://hemi.nyu.edu/hemi/es/e-misferica-72/sosa
Gender, Performance and the Body in Contemporary Latin America 
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