Crossing Disciplinary Borders: Practice, Scholarship, and Pedagogy
This seminar will be held at the American Comparative Literature Assoc.
conference (www.acla.org). In the interest of bringing together scholars
from a variety of fields and critical traditions, I invite papers that
address interdisciplinarity in the broadest sense of the word. Despite
the long history of looking across aesthetic and academic borders in order
to disrupt categorical assumptions, interdisciplinary endeavors continue
to meet with skepticism in many academic communities. While Comparative
Literature has been relatively open to interdisciplinary research, critics
may have legitimate concerns about the scholarly pitfalls of such
projects. Nonetheless, the current multi-media environment demands that
scholars and students develop flexible and productive critical models that
seek connections as well as make distinctions between disciplines. I hope
that this seminar will appeal to scholars and practitioners of the visual,
literary, and performing arts.
Topics might include:
- Artistic and/or critical integrity
- Interdisciplinary or multi-media artistic practice
- Successful and failed cross-disciplinary endeavors
- The history of interdisciplinary studies
- Models of scholarship and/or theories of interdisciplinary criticism
- Collaborative artistic practice and academic scholarship
- The politics of interdisciplinary studies
- Bringing interdisciplinary studies into the classroom
Abstracts of 500 words should be submitted to Julie Townsend
(jatownse@usc.edu) by September 20, 2002.
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