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University of Chicago
Department of Theatre and Performance Studies
Department of Theatre and Performance Studies
5801 South Ellis AvenueChicago, Illinois 60637
773.702.9315
collegeadmissions@uchicago.edu
Degrees offered
Bachelor of Arts in Theatre and Performance Studies
Doctor of Philosophy in Theatre and Performance Studies
About the program
Positioned at the heart of a world-renowned academic institution and housed in a state-of-the-art presenting facility, the Committee on Theater and Performance Studies (TAPS) offers an undergraduate Bachelor of Arts degree, a joint Ph.D. program, a TAPS-focused Master of Arts Program in the Humanities, and wide-ranging curricular and production opportunities.
The TAPS program – including a new and expanding dance program – supports a broad array of expressive forms, encouraging experimentation, risk-taking, imaginative thinking and deep knowledge-building. TAPS students gain fluency in devising artistic work and engaging it critically. They build skills relevant to a variety of professional pursuits, equipping them to lead the conversation about the future of the performing arts.
Faculty
Philip Bohlman (Music) Seth Brodsky (Music) Thomas Christensen (Music) Leslie Buxbaum Danzig (TAPS, Director of Undergraduate Studies) Martha Feldman (Music) Ariel Fox (East Asian Languages and Civilizations) Theaster Gates (Visual Arts) Berthold Hoeckner (Music) Matthew Jesse Jackson (Visual Arts & Art History) Loren Kruger (English & Comparative Literature) David J. Levin (Germanic Studies & Cinema and Media Studies) Agnes Lugo-Ortiz (Romance Languages and Literatures) John Muse (English, TAPS Director of Graduate Studies) Ellen MacKay Chair (English) Sarah Nooter (Classics) Larry Norman (Romance Languages and Literatures) William Pope.L (Visual Arts) Tina Post (English) Steven Rings (Music) Danielle Roper (Romance Languages and Literatures, Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture) Rocco Rubini (Romance Languages and Literatures) Catherine Sullivan (Visual Arts) Christopher Wild (Germanic Studies) Judith Zeitlin (East Asian Languages and Civilizations)
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