A Performative Analysis of the Construction of the University Student

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Abstract

This paper examines five syllabi from first year general education courses through the work of Judith Butler to explore the role of the university in producing and policing the boundaries of what it means to be a scholar. Socially produced identities implicate universities in their critiques of their own students.

Author

• Laura E Smithers, University of Oregon