Alexa Alice Joubin
George Washington University Professor and Middlebury College John M. Kirk, Jr. Chair in Medieval and Renaissance Literature (details below)
Founding Co-director, Digital Humanities Institute, George Washington University
George Washington University Professor of English, Theatre and Dance, East Asian Languages and Literatures, and International Affairs
Middlebury College John M. Kirk, Jr. Chair in Medieval and Renaissance Literature, Bread Loaf School of English
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Research Affiliate in Literature
General Editor, The Shakespearean International Yearbook
Co-founder, Global Shakespeares, http://globalshakespeares.org/
ORCID ID: 0000-0001-9914-3578
Founding Co-director, Digital Humanities Institute, George Washington University
George Washington University Professor of English, Theatre and Dance, East Asian Languages and Literatures, and International Affairs
Middlebury College John M. Kirk, Jr. Chair in Medieval and Renaissance Literature, Bread Loaf School of English
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Research Affiliate in Literature
General Editor, The Shakespearean International Yearbook
Co-founder, Global Shakespeares, http://globalshakespeares.org/
ORCID ID: 0000-0001-9914-3578
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Students learn in a hands-on environment and conduct individual research projects. From generative AI as assistive technologies to long-standing humanistic questions of agency, identity, and mind and body, critical theory provides essential tools to participate in current cultural discourses.
Through the lens of social justice, this course equips students with critical AI literacy as well as fluency in posthumanism, feminism, trans/ queer studies, and critical race theory.
:::: In particular, we will focus on racialized bodies, performance of gender and sexuality, disability narratives, feminist interventions, religious fault lines, class struggle, and intersectional identities. Collectively we will reflect on our embodied vulnerability. :::: Middlebury College Summer Institute in Global Humanities, part of Bread Loaf School of English MA Program, Monterey, California
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More importantly, students will learn how to apply theoretical tools to literary works in the interest of producing scholarship that instigates changes. Taking an intersectional approach, we will examine modern theoretical perspectives, a body of knowledge that continues to evolve in new directions.
Films may include Elizabeth I (Shekhar Kapur), Revengers Tragedy (Alex Cox), Doctor Faust (Nevill Coghill), Coriolanus (Ralph Fiennes), Much Ado About Nothing (Kenneth Branagh), Shakespeare in Love (John Madden), Titus (Julie Taymor), Henry V (Kenneth Branagh), Richard III (Richard Loncraine), Jew of Malta (Douglas Morse), The Maori Merchant of Venice (Don Selwyn), Girl with a Pearl Earring (Peter Webber), Stage Beauty (Richard Eyre), King Lear (Richard Eyre), Ran (Akira Kurosawa), The King’s Speech (Tom Hooper), and Anonymous (Roland Emmerich).
Students have the opportunity to publish in a major reference work.
Shakespeare has been screened—projected on the
silver screen and filtered by various ideologies—since
1899. We will examine the adaptation of Shakespeare as a historical and colonial practice and conclude with contemporary case studies. Theories covered include postcolonial criticism, disability studies, cultural materialism, gender theories, critical race studies, film and auteur theories, and performance theories.
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SEMINAR # 2: Global Shakespeare ////
What is the secret of Shakespeare’s wide appeal? Has Shakespeare always been a cultural hero? The course
considers how ideologies about race, gender, and class
shape Shakespeare’s plays and how world cultures
shape the plays’ afterlives.
The course introduces students to the English-subtitled theater works and films of directors from Kuwait, France, South Africa, Japan, Germany, Singapore, China, New Zealand, Brazil, the U.K., and U.S. All videos have English subtitles.
A second focus of the course is major philosophers' engagement with Shakespeare, including Hegel, Karl Marx, Freud, Lacan, and Derrida. In addition to theoretical texts, we will work with a group of core play texts.
There will be ample opportunity to relate the course to any of your prior or developing interests or to work in original languages if you like. While an emphasis is placed on theoretical implications of various modes of confrontation with "Shakespeare," seminar members are encouraged to contribute to the reading list.
Among other topics, we will explore the dialectics between the contingencies of history and universalizing theories, between textuality and visuality, between formalist and ideological approaches to cultural phenomena, and between print culture and new media.
A second area of emphasis will be on globalization. Critical theories travel far and wide across geo-political borders and are themselves products of traveling critics. As we study how to read across cultures and world literature, we will also explore the ways in which theories reflect the critics’ own experience abroad and will read canonical Western theorists along with critics from other cultures.
This graduate seminar explores the history of digital humanities, theoretical issues it raises, and major methodological debates.
No computer skills beyond basic familiarity with word processing and Internet access are required
GOALS:
Develop the skills and vocabulary necessary for working at, and engaging with, the intersection of the humanities (particularly literary and cultural studies) and technology
Grasp major theoretical developments
Examine existing digital humanities projects
Situate your own research interests within the larger context of digital humanities theories and practice
Highlights
Historicize and theorize DH practices
Curate your scholarly and digital presence
Participate in GW's inaugural Digital Humanities Symposium, Jan. 24-26, 2013; www.gwu.edu/~acyhuang/DH2013.shtml
Guest speakers to cover medieval, early modern, nineteenth- and twentieth-century British and American drama, poetry, and fiction: Janelle Jenstad (Univ. of Victoria via Skype), Chris Sten (GW), Jeffrey Cohen (GW), Margaret Soltan (GW)
Topics
Theories of epistemology
Access and inclusion
Challenges of working with and against multiple media
(In)visible histories of race, gender, and avenues of access
Disability, cultural difference, and linguistic diversity
Visual and print cultures, embodiment, archiving the ephemeral
Canon formation, close and distant reading strategies
Questions about the values, methods, and goals of humanistic inquiries at the intersection of digital media and theory
What is the secret of Shakespeare’s wide appeal? Has Shakespeare always been a cultural hero? How do directors around the world interpret such timeless tragedies as Macbeth, Hamlet, King Lear, Othello, and Romeo and Juliet?
This course examines the aesthetics and techniques of interpreting Shakespeare, with an emphasis on the tensions between claims for originality and poetic license, and globalization and nationalism.
This graduate seminar examines the phenomenon of adaptation, beginning with an overview of “appropriation” as a historical and colonial practice and concluding with contemporary case studies, with particular consideration given to the cultural history of the Shakespearean corpus— performed, adapted, revised, parodied, and translated.
Theories
• Postcolonial criticism
• Cultural materialism
• (New) Historicism
• Presentism
• Gender theories
• Critical race studies
• Film / auteur theory
• Translation and globalization theories
• Performance theories
Within Shakespeare’s plays, the figure of translation looms large. It is fitting that the Shakespearean oeuvre has been translated into numerous languages over the centuries.
This workshop explores creative ways to incorporate “translational moments” within Shakespeare and the global history of translating Shakespeare.
This seminar surveys literary and cultural theories from Romanticism to the present in a global context (paired with films and literary works), with emphases on the dialectics between the contingencies of history and universalizing theories, between textuality and visuality, between formalist and ideological approaches to cultural phenomena, and between print and new media.
social and cultural environments, which will range widely around the globe -- American short story, Brazilian novel, English Renaissance drama, Chinese novella, Asian-American literature, and films from Korea, Hong Kong, France, Italy, and elsewhere.