研究范围
The following are the areas, each overseen by a singular professor, in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts:
Visual Culture | Literature of the African World
在这个区域, students may investigate visual, 空间, or literary production in transnational networks of the African world. Students research visual culture, literature, built form, or urban geography. Topics cover diaspora studies, postcolonialism, and globalization. The courses needed to complete a student’s primary or secondary area may be taken with a range of other Africanist professors across newbb电子平台.
Art | Architectural History
Students conduct research on the history of the visual arts and architecture. Courses are object-oriented, focus on 文化 context, and address interdisciplinary arts concepts like word and image, 艺术及表演, 艺术和力量.
Ethnomusicology | 音乐ology
Students in this area explore how and why people create music in historical, 文化, and transnational contexts. Courses focus on how ethnomusicologists and musicologists forge interdisciplinary scholarship with archival sources, 面试, participant-observation, 歌文本, 分数, 和音标.
黑人视觉研究
This area focuses on Black film, 黑人视觉文化, Black popular culture including camp, and queer studies from an ethnic studies perspective. Students are encouraged to develop interdisciplinary models that critically explore social contexts.
电影 Studies | Comparative Literature
对于这个区域, studies involve modes of reading history and culture through the lens of national and transnational literary and filmic texts. Global awareness is emphasized as well as particular Western and 东部 traditions.
剧院 | Performance Studies
Students investigate theater, drama, and performance studies. Topics include dramaturgy, theory, ethics, and contemporary German performance.
艺术哲学
The area combines philosophy of art with philosophy of culture and history of ideas to study them as dynamically interconnected and historically conditioned factors in the circulation of concepts, 符号, 仪式, and artistic practices.