Arts and Scholarship in Theory & Practice

Open to a diverse range of theorists and practitioners, the Arts+Scholarship RSO engages a richly interdisciplinary nexus of questions, practices, challenges, opportunities, and possibilities for unsettling medium-specific boundaries and staging collaborations between scholarly and artistic research and practice. At the center of our inquiry is performative scholarship, artistic play within scholarly research, and performance-as-research. When and how is theorizing a creative act? How can art theorize? What intersections do we notice between creative writing and scholarly writing? We are committed to investigating, inventing, and paying attention to unexpected possibilities in the praxis of scholarly research and artistic production.