Naum Panovski has
extensive experience teaching in the areas of performing arts, cultural
theory, criticism, sociology of art, aesthetics of literature, drama,
performance, and film, and holds a Ph.D. in the Humanities, expertise
in aesthetics and history of ideas from the University of Texas
at Dallas, In his interdisciplinary approach to teaching he has
ostered deeper conversation between the profession, performance,
and the liberal arts, between the theory and the practice. In his
research he has continuously and specifically focused on the interactive
relationship between theatre performance and society,m on the creative
structures that influence both culture and the flow of power in
society. As a university professor of performance, criticism, theory,
history of ideas, he has proven himself especially effective in
teaching and conducting research in the following areas:
Theory and Aesthetics of Film, Theatre, Drama, Literature.
Topics in humanities, history of ideas, and culture [“holocaust,”
“women, war and performance,” “democracy, censorship,
and arts,” “ arts, culture, nationalism, stalinism and
totalitarianism,”]
Topic in European culture, literature, film theatre (focus on Eastern
European culture and literature)
Critical and Literary Theory
Popular Culture
Cinema Studies
Politics, Film, and Theatre
Philosophy of Arts
Sociology of Film and Theatre
Theatre and Film Criticism
Theory and practice of Contemporary American Theatre and Performance
European modern and experimental theatre and drama (expertise in
Eastern European theatre)
Acting - all levels of acting - expertise in Stanislavski and his
students, Chaikin’s “sound and movement”m Brecht’s
“V-effect” and “Gestus”
Styles of Acting
Play analysis
Directing – all levels of directing - particular strength
in styles of directing
Director’s text analysis, conceptualization, visualization,
and directing as a collaboration
History of Theatre and Dramatic Literature from Shamanism to Post
Modernism
Topics in performance studies
