Graduate Students
Seeking: Graduate Student With Knowledge of Anti-Racist Pedagogies
Position: Summer Researcher/Artistic Collaborator
Timeframe: May-August 2022 (approximately 20 hours total)
Stipend: $500
Student playwright Crystal Bernard, a member of the 2021-22 cohort of Transforming MSU Playwriting Fellowship, (TMSU,) has written a short play entitled Future Visions: Blackness Reimagined. The piece follows Olamina, a Black student, as she imagines a classroom in the Afro-Future. The playwright will be working with TMSU Artistic Coordinator Lynn Lammers to further develop their piece over the summer. The finished piece will then be produced in collaboration with the Department of Theatre in September 2022 as the focal point of a workshop on anti-racist approaches to teaching offered by the Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion.
The graduate student who takes on the role of Researcher/Collaborator will support the playwright and artistic coordinator by providing research on current anti-racist pedagogy scholarship. The Researcher/Collaborator will also be asked to read drafts of the script, engage in brainstorming sessions, attend developmental readings, and offer input/feedback when requested. Knowledge of Afro-Futurism as an artistic genre, theatre, and/or creative writing is a plus, but not necessary. Most, if not all, work will be conducted via Zoom and email. Flexible scheduling.
Please submit your resume, contact information for one reference, and a cover letter explaining your interest in the position to Artistic Coordinator Lynn Lammers at lammersl@msu.edu.
