Marcos Davi Silva Steuernagel works at the intersection of performance and politics, Brazilian and Latin American theatre and performance, and the digital humanities. He is co-editor with Diana Taylor of the multilingual digital books What is Performance Studies? (Duke University Press; HemiPress, 2015) and Resistant Strategies (HemiPress, 2021), and has published essays in TDR: The Drama Review, Latin American Theatre Review, and the Journal of Global South Studies, has conducted extensive fieldwork in Brazil and in Southern Mexico, and has chaired transnational and multilingual panels in English, Portuguese, and Spanish with scholars from across the Americas. He is currently working on a monograph that traces the intrinsic relationship between politics, performance, and cultural funding throughout the rise and fall of the Workers’ Party era in Brazil (2002-2016).
keywords
Performance Studies, Digital Humanities, Coloniality
ARSC 1490 - MASP Humanities Seminar
Primary Instructor
-
Spring 2018
Enhances students' knowledge and appreciation of the humanities. Readings, discussions, cooperative learning exercises, workshopping papers and presentation, guest speakers, and outside activities are designed to enhance both students' appreciation of the subject matter and their performance in their regular courses. Emphasis is on actively using knowledge of humanities in a variety of ways. Department consent required. May be repeated up to 4 total credit hours.
LAMS 1000 - Introduction to Latin American and Latinx Studies
Primary Instructor
-
Spring 2022
Focuses on the main topics of Latin American and Latinx Studies, exploring them through interdisciplinary approaches. Core course of the Latin American and Latinx Studies Certificate.
THDN 5010 - Introduction to Performance Studies
Primary Instructor
-
Fall 2023
Introduces students to performance studies by surveying foundational concepts and recent scholarship in the field and by examining theoretical and methodological questions raised by performance practices. This interdisciplinary course provides students with the necessary vocabulary and research skills to continue to navigate the field of performance studies and the many academic fields it intersects with. Formerly THTR 5010.
THDN 6009 - Research and Teaching in Theatre, Dance and Performance Studies
Primary Instructor
-
Fall 2018 / Fall 2019 / Fall 2020 / Fall 2021 / Fall 2022 / Fall 2023
Provides an overview of resources, methodologies, and strategies for graduate teaching in the fields of theatre, dance, and performance studies. Students will be exposed to library and other resources available to them in the department and in the university, and will develop a research proposal for a project they plan to develop during their graduate studies.
THTR 2021 - Global Theatre 2: Forms of Modern Theatre and Drama
Primary Instructor
-
Spring 2018 / Spring 2021
Explores the dramatic literature, performance traditions and cultural contexts in world theatre from 1600s to the present, through discussion, writing and theatre practice, with an emphasis on the impacts of modernity and colonialism.
THTR 4059 - Open Topics in Theatre and Drama
Primary Instructor
-
Spring 2021
Covers topics not otherwise listed in the curriculum. Topics for each semester are specified in the online Schedule Planner. May be repeated up to 9 total credit hours.
THTR 5010 - Introduction to Performance Studies
Primary Instructor
-
Fall 2018 / Fall 2019 / Fall 2020 / Fall 2021
Introduces students to the diverse genealogies of the field of performance studies by surveying foundational texts and key topics and by examining theoretical and methodological questions raised by particular performance practices. Provides students with vocabulary and references to continue to navigate the field of performance studies, as well as the many other academic fields that intersect with it.
THTR 5049 - Special Topics in Theatre
Primary Instructor
-
Fall 2022
Opportunity for students to explore, upon consultation with the instructor, areas in theatre that the normal sequence of offerings may not allow. May be repeated up to 9 total credit hours. Same as THTR 4049.
THTR 6111 - On Stage Studies: Global Contemporary Theatre
Primary Instructor
-
Spring 2018
Explores global theatre from the early 1960s to the present, with particular attention towards balancing the avant garde and popular theatre in recent world drama.
THTR 6959 - Master's Thesis
Primary Instructor
-
Spring 2021 / Spring 2023
May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours.
