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Department of ENGLISH AND COMPARATIVE literature
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies 20th and 21st Century African American Literature and Cultural History Africa Oral History Gender Sexuality Ethnicity and Race Studies Media Studies Political Theater Pedagogy Interdisciplinary Studies
"Lauren Stockmon Brown is a PhD Candidate and Provost’s Diversity Fellow at Columbia University in the Theatre and Performance English and Comparative Literature Department. Lauren received a BA from New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study. She is a former scholarship recipient of The Fulbright English Teaching Assistant Program, Senegal ‘20. Here, she taught English as a second language while continuing research on Pan-Africanism and cultural identity for her podcast, "My Colorful Nana.” She is also passionate about storytelling and movement building for youth writing and advocacy."
Primarily interested in taking an interdisciplinary approach to exploring critical global issues. Trained in graduate-level courses highlighting the politics of visual arts, innovative education practices, and language teaching. Taught by other scholars as part of an international roster of researchers from across Columbia University and New York City.
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GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES, THEATRE & PERFORMANCE STUDIES
GRADUATE RESEARCH PORTFOLIO:
“Examining ‘Worldmaking’ and the ‘Worlds of Pan-Africanism’"
"Examining Contemporary Gumboot Dancers: Continuing Performances of Masculinity in Historically Oppressive Spaces"
"Examining Contemporary Gumboot Dancers: Continuing Performances of Masculinity in Historically Oppressive Spaces"
This paper through a visual analysis of the First World Festival of Negro Arts and Josephine Baker takes an ambitious, diachronic approach to the question of world-making by asking how and why the famous danse sauvage performance of Josephine Baker informed the cultural politics of post-independence Negritude and pan-Africanism, as repres
This paper through a visual analysis of the First World Festival of Negro Arts and Josephine Baker takes an ambitious, diachronic approach to the question of world-making by asking how and why the famous danse sauvage performance of Josephine Baker informed the cultural politics of post-independence Negritude and pan-Africanism, as represented at the Dakar festival of 1966. The paper works with concepts developed by Adom Getachew and Stuart Hall to posit a connection between these two events
"Examining Contemporary Gumboot Dancers: Continuing Performances of Masculinity in Historically Oppressive Spaces"
"Examining Contemporary Gumboot Dancers: Continuing Performances of Masculinity in Historically Oppressive Spaces"
"Examining Contemporary Gumboot Dancers: Continuing Performances of Masculinity in Historically Oppressive Spaces"
This literary analysis and visual examination revolves around the performance of the traditional African dance style, gumboot. This essay asks “what is at stake” politically and socially, in contemporary representations of masculinity throughout the African diaspora.This essay explores how dance has continued to act as a unique space in
This literary analysis and visual examination revolves around the performance of the traditional African dance style, gumboot. This essay asks “what is at stake” politically and socially, in contemporary representations of masculinity throughout the African diaspora.This essay explores how dance has continued to act as a unique space in which men of African descent are free to create and express their own individuality as well as collectivism.