This seminar will explore children, childhood, including girlhood and boyhood, and performance. We will examine the roles of children, their agency, and the construction of childhood within the realms of theatre and performance studies. We will also investigate historical, cultural, and methodological approaches to understanding children and childhood and analyze cultural practices, such as films and literary texts, by engaging with global and transnational scholarship. Covering a diverse spectrum of children, including child actors in Shakespearean dramas and transitional adoptee children during the Cold War era, this seminar will ask students to develop their own research projects through the examination of children, childhood, and performance.
Number of Credits
3
Shea Hwang