Exploring how educators and institutions might embrace the STEAM turn to ensure that theatre and performance can be instrumental to the neoliberal university, without being instrumentalized by it, this volume showcases alternative models for teaching and learning in theatre and performance in a neoliberal age.

Acknowledgements

Introduction: "Theatre & Performance, Crisis & Survival"

Kim Solga

SECTION ONE: Face the Steamroller - Essays

2. "Power and privilege in neoliberal perspective: the Laboratory for global performance and politics at Georgetown university"

3. Asif Majid

4. "Theatre training and performance practice in neoliberal Zimbabwean universities: survival strategies and frustrations"

5. Nkululeko Sibanda

6. "Television as theatre text in the austere academy: a curricular exploration"

7. Hillary Miller

8. "Faces between numbers: re-imagining theatre and performance as instruments of critical data studies within a liberal arts education"

9. Richard C. Windeyer

10. "Towards a concept of inefficiency in performance and dialogue practice"

11. Linda Taylor

12. "Masihambisane [Let’s walk]: walking the city as an interdisciplinary pedagogical experiment in Durban, South Africa"

13. Miranda Young-Jahangeer and Bridget Horner

    SECTION TWO: Trust the Work – Case Studies

14. "Living the interdiscipline: conceiving, developing, managing, and learning from a large-scale, multidisciplinary, scenario-based project supporting police de-escalation training in Ontario"

15. Natalie Alvarez, interviewed by Kim Solga

16. "Hul’q’umi’num’ language heroes: a successful collaboration between Elders, community organisations, and Canadian West Coast universities"

17. Kirsten Sadeghi-Yekta

18. "Celebratory theatre: a response to neoliberalism in the arts"

19. Yasmine Kandil and Hannah te Bokkel

20. "The performative foreign language classroom as a site of creative disruption"

21. Anna Santucci

22. "Reimagining applied practices: a case study on the potential partnership between applied practices and education for sustainable development"

23. Alex Cahill and Paul Warwick

24. "Exacting collaboration: performance as pedagogy in interdisciplinary contexts"

25. Zachary A. Dorsey

26. "Working at the margins: theatre, social science and radical political engagement"

27. Julia Gray and Pia Kontos

28. "Devilish deals: art, research, and activism with/in the institution"

29. Oona Hatton

30. "The Verbatim Formula: caring for care leavers in the neoliberal university"

31. Maggie Inchley, Sadhvi Dar, Susmita Pujara and Sylvan Baker

32. "Emancipated spectators in the theatre history classroom"

33. Susanne Shawyer

34. "Surviving, but not thriving: the politics of care and the experience of motherhood in academia"

35. Katharine Low and Diana Damian Martin

36. "Writing wrongs: disruptive feminist teaching within the (anxious) ivory tower"

37. Jayme Kilburn

    Afterword: A Care Manifesto

38. "Tactics: practical and imagined"

Diana Damian Martin, Sharon Green, Clara Nizard, Theron Schmidt, Max Schulman and Kim Solga