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The essay draws on this data, along with other recent scholarship, to explore how theatre and performance studies doctoral programs and graduates of these programs are responding to a job market that is not producing enough tenure-stream academic positions to support the number of PhDs conferred by...

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Published in:Theatre topics 2019-07, Vol.29 (2), p.ix
Main Author: Noe Montez
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Advisors
Careers
Collaboration
College students
Colleges & universities
Consortia
Directors
Doctoral Programs
Editorials
Education
Essays
Graduate students
Graduate studies
Longitudinal Studies
Shortages
Teaching Methods
Tenure
Theater
Undergraduate education
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Summary:The essay draws on this data, along with other recent scholarship, to explore how theatre and performance studies doctoral programs and graduates of these programs are responding to a job market that is not producing enough tenure-stream academic positions to support the number of PhDs conferred by the field, and to offer strategies for graduate faculty on how to mentor graduate students in light of these realities. “Mind Readers: Imagining Research-led Practice in Doctoral Education” sees four members of a graduate cohort at the University of California, Santa Barbara through their experiences forming a graduate directing collective “to provide practice-based opportunities for graduate students to explore research; to support undergraduate theatre studies curricula with practice- and performance-based approaches to texts; and to provide a more comprehensive experience to theatre students in the bachelor of arts program, whose opportunities for staging works were limited when competing with BFA actors” (127). [...]a cohort of five graduate students in the University of Texas at Austin’s Performance as Public Practice PhD program share their experience working with faculty and with one another in “Loving Cohorts: Tending to the Graduate Student Body.” [...]thanks to you, our readers, for your continued engagement with Theatre Topics, your thoughtful submissions, and for the ways in which you help us share and circulate ideas among the theatre and performance studies community.
ISSN:1054-8378
1086-3346
DOI:10.1353/tt.2019.0015