There will be no photos for this entry (although I certainly wish I had) but a humorously terrifying recount. Alright, terrifying is exaggeration but appalling would be the mildest adjective I would select. This happened last Tuesday for a Postgrad Seminar called "Strategies of Analysis", i.e. Critical and Cultural Theory, something I'm familiar with. First year PhD students are required to attend this class alongside MPhil students. So I was asked to lead the seminar considering my familiarity with some of these topics. The topic for that seminar was "Postcolonialism and Orientalism in Performance". Well and good, given that MPhil students, from various parts of Ireland and the international community now enrolled in Trinity's School of Drama, Film and Music, have little or no exposure to Critical Theory, the class went pretty slow (yes, I was
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