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The theatrical professoriate : contemporary higher education and its academic dramas
- Title
- The theatrical professoriate : contemporary higher education and its academic dramas / Emily Roxworthy.
- Author
- Roxworthy, Emily
- Publication
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.
- ©2020
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Details
- Description
- viii, 177 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "This book argues that today's professoriate has become increasingly theatrical, largely as a result of neoliberal policies in higher education, but also in response to an anti-intellectual scrutiny that has become pervasive throughout the Western world. The Theatrical Professoriate: Contemporary Higher Education and Its Academic Dramas examines how the Western professoriate increasingly finds itself enacting command performances that utilize scripting, characterization, surrogation, and spectacle-the hallmarks of theatricality-toward neoliberal ends. Roxworthy explores how the theatrical nature of today's professoriate and the resultant glut of performances about academia on stage and screen have contributed to a highly ambivalent public fascination with academia. She further documents the "theatrical turn" witnessed in American higher education, as academic institutions use performance to intervene in the diversity issues and disciplinary disparities fueled by neoliberalism. By analyzing academic dramas and their audience reception alongside theoretical approaches, the author reveals how contemporary academia drives the professoriate to perform in what seem like increasingly artificial ways. Ideal for practitioners and students of education, ethnic, and science studies, The Theatrical Professoriate deftly intervenes in Performance Studies' still-unsettled debates over the differential impact of live versus mediated performances"--
- Subjects
- Education, Higher > Social aspects
- Racism in higher education
- College teaching > Social aspects
- Education, Higher > Social aspects > United States
- Drama in education
- College teachers in motion pictures
- 2000-2099
- College teachers > Social conditions
- Racism in higher education > United States
- Education, Higher, in literature
- United States
- College teachers in literature
- College teaching > Social aspects > United States
- College teachers > United States > Social conditions > 21st century
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: Introducing the theatrical professoriate -- #Oscars so white and historically white universities -- Academic drama on stage and screen -- Behind the scenes of academia's diversity charades -- Framing science for the death of the humanities -- Conclusion: Diagnosing academia's theatrical turn.
- Call Number
- JFE 20-5344
- ISBN
- 9780367406790
- 0367406799
- 9780367808457 (canceled/invalid)
- 9781000760606 (canceled/invalid)
- 9781000760248 (canceled/invalid)
- 9781000760422 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2019037533
- OCLC
- 1114537881
- Author
- Roxworthy, Emily, author.
- Title
- The theatrical professoriate : contemporary higher education and its academic dramas / Emily Roxworthy.
- Publisher
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.
- Copyright Date
- ©2020
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 2000-2099
- Other Form:
- Online version: Roxworthy, Emily. Theatrical professoriate. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020. 9780367808457 (DLC) 2019037534
- Research Call Number
- JFE 20-5344