Ellen T. Harris (eharris@mit.edu) B.A. ’67 Brown University; M.A. ’70, Ph.D. ’76 University of Chicago, Class of 1949 Professor Emeritus at MIT is a musicologist whose work focuses on Handel, Baroque opera, and vocal performance practice. She is a regular Visiting Professor at The Juilliard...
Lowell Lindgren, Professor Emeritus of Music, Ph.D. in Musicology, Harvard University, writes about Baroque topics, focusing on London, Rome and stage design. His publications from 2001 to the present include twenty-five entries in the second edition of the New Grove Dictionary of Music (2001), a...
SHASS Research Fund Awards 2015
Five out of the twelve 2015 SHASS Research Fund awards were awarded to members of the MIT Music and Theater Arts faculty. The SHASS Research Fund supports MIT research in the humanities, arts, or social sciences that shows promise of making an important...
21M.703J Media and Methods: Performing | Coco Fusco
This course is an introduction to the history of socially engaged performance art and its strategic uses in public space, both physical and virtual. We will begin by working through some foundational theories of performance, drawing on texts by...
21M.711 Production Seminar: Live Cinema
Jay Scheib
Studio workshop leaps into the deep-end of interdisciplinary performance practices by investigating the meaningful integration of new (and used) audio, video, and broadcast technologies in live performance. Students experiment with cameras,...
21M.715 Environmental Performance: the Politics of Space and Identity
Charlotte Brathwaite
Studio seminar investigates live performance as a medium in constant flux. No play is performed the same way twice; no experience can ever be repeated. When a performance breaks the fourth wall, audiences...
21M.846 Topics in Performance Studies: Sport as Performance
Claire Conceison
Seminar investigates the aesthetics of sport as theatrical performance and explores the performance of race, gender, class, nation, and sexuality in sport. Readings drawn from theatre/performance studies, anthropology...
Charles Shadle teaches composition, music theory, and music history at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he serves as a Senior Lecturer in Music, and as Theory Coordinator. He is the 2016 and 2024 recipient of a SHASS Levitan Teaching Award. Numerous institutions, including SUNY...
21M.851 Independent Study in Production & Design: Drawing for Designers
Oana Botez and Sara Brown
Drawing by hand through direct observation is a fundamental skill for architects, artists and designers. In this class, students will explore drawing as a process; as a route to understanding...
