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Romi N Crawford

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Romi Crawford, PhD, has a research practice that explores areas of race and ethnicity as they relate to American visual culture (including art, film, and photography). Her work often centers on, and expands the bounds of, Black Arts Movement ideas and aesthetics and positions pedagogical activities that embed in art practices. Recent curatorial projects include Citing Black Geographies (Richard Gray Gallery, 2022) and So Be It! Ase!: Photographic Echoes of Festac'77 (Richard Gray, 2023). Select publications include: co-author of The Wall of Respect: Public Art and Black Liberation in 1960s Chicago (Northwestern University Press, 2017); Fleeting Monuments for the Wall of Respect (Green Lantern, 2021); “Reading Between the Photographs: Serious Sociality in the Kamoinge Photographic Workshop,” in Working Together: Louis Draper and the Kamoinge Workshop (Duke University, 2020); and "Surface and Soul in the Work of Nick Cave” in Nick Cave: Forothermore (DelMonico/MCA, 2022). She is founder of the BAM School Modality and the New Art School Modality. She received AM and PhD degrees from the University of Chicago.

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This course examines the tradition of writing by women from the 17th century to the present. Students will be introduced to a variety of literary genres, including semi-private forms, such as diaries, journals, and letters; captivity narratives; pulp novels; melodrama; suffragist writings; poetry; avant-garde fiction; drama; feminist theory and criticism, and more. The course incorporates texts from a range of multi-cultural contexts and stresses close readings and research in the final projects. Authors include, Anne Bradstreet, Mary Rowlandson, Phillis Wheatley, Louisa May Alcott, Kate Chopin, Lydia Maria Child, Frances Harper, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Edith Wharton, Nella Larsen, Willa Cather, Djuna Barnes, Zora Neale Hurston, Gertrude Stein, Flannery O?Connor, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Maxine Hong Kingston, Audre Lorde, Adrienne Rich, Gloria Anzaldua, and Toni Morrison.

Class Number

2164

Credits

3

Description

This course explores notions of kitsch, camp, and `bling¿ and considers the aesthetic as well as the ideological significance of these concepts. Students will be introduced to a variety of texts, including literature by Christopher Isherwood and Oscar Wilde; films, by Douglas Sirk and John Waters; art; and theory, including texts by Susan Sontag and Walter Benjamin, all of which will help to construct a coherent set of meanings around these concepts. Central to this inquiry is the relation of these concepts to matters of race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, and new medias.

Class Number

2503

Credits

3

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A master's thesis is required for completion of the master's degree in arts administration. The thesis should demonstrate a student's ability to design, justify, execute, evaluate, and present the results of original research or of a substantial project. In this class students work closely with an MAAAP program advisor, and meet frequently with other MAAAP participants in groups and in individual meetings. The thesis is presented, in both written and oral form, to a thesis committee for both initial and final approval. You must be a Master of Arts in Arts Administration and Policy student to enroll in this course.

Class Number

2531

Credits

3