Naida Zukic
Professor
Speech, Communications and Theatre Arts
EMAIL: nzukic@bmcc.cuny.edu
Office: S-628F
Office Hours:
Phone: +1 (212) 220-8000;ext=7134
Expertise
Queer Theory, Popular Culture, Performance Studies, Media Studies
Degrees
- B.A. Arizona State University, Communication Studies,1999
- M.A. Arizona State University , Critical Studies in Communication ,2001
- Ph.D. University of Minnesota, Rhetorical Criticism ,2005
Courses Taught
- This course is designed to provide an understanding of intercultural principles and perspectives when communicating with people from diverse cultures. Consideration will be given to both verbal and nonverbal communication processes in the "American" culture, co-cultures, contact cultures, and popular culture. Through readings, lectures, response papers, and interviews, as well as through in-class discussion and exercises, this course will explore how culture shapes communication, how situations are framed through cultural lenses, and how histories, perceptions, values, contexts, aspects of stereotypes, and ethnocentrism all contribute to the complexity of intercultural communication. Prerequisite: SPE 100 or SPE 102
- The aim of this course is to develop effective skills in speech communication. The student examines how to generate topics and organized ideas, masters elements of audience psychology and practices techniques of speech presentation in a public forum. All elements of speech production and presentation are considered.
- This course is recommended for those whose native language is not English. It addresses fundamentals of speech communication, as does SPE 100, but provides special emphasis in vocabulary building, pronunciation, and enunciation. Classwork is implemented through the use of recordings, individual and group drills, interpersonal exercises, oral readings, and impromptu and prepared group discussions and speeches. Weekly speech tutoring is required. This course satisfies the equivalent for, and may be taken instead of, SPE 100. Credit is given for SPE 102 or SPE 100, but not for both classes.
- The focus of this course is to provide an understanding of the influence and impact on our lives and society by the mass media. The course examines the history, law, technology, economics and politics of the mass media through independent study, field trips, etc. Students are encouraged to be aware of techniques of influence used by the mass media to influence and determine social and political values. In addition, students learn to develop tools for critical analysis of and standards for discriminating consumption of the mass media.
Prerequisite: SPE 100 or permission of department
Research and Projects
- Tactical Bodies: The Choreography of Non-Dancing Subjects. The Congress on Research in Dance:: University of California Los Angeles.
- Lost in Language ||Writerly Violence|| Art of Resistance
- BACKLASH/On Women’s Basic Rights & Freedoms ::An exhibition addressing the current political climate towards women:: SOHO20 Chelsea, New York, NY.
- Memory, Medium, Movement ::Butoh/body as a medium of interrogation directed at subjectivity, memory, power, and responsibility.
- Oneiroid Life: NewFilmmakers New York Film Festival, New York, NY.
- Against Rhetoric of Urgency (Butoh). San Francsico, CA.
- Regarding The Abject AesthetHic: Butoh jouissance of rage – a surrealist aesthetHic of abjection as a radical commitment to ethical self-instrumentalization.
- Get Smart, Galapagos Art Space, Brooklyn, NY.
Publications
- The Weight of Meaninglessness., Digital Icons.
- My Neighbour’s Face and Similar Vulgarities., Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies.
- Oneiroid Askesis., Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies.
- The DJ as Electronic De/Territorializer., DJ Culture in the Mix: Power, Technology, and Social Change in Electronic Dance Music.
- Sehakia’s Voices: Realigning the Zone of the Speakable in Cyberspace., Webbing Cyberfeminist Practice: Communities, Pedagogies, and Social Action.
- Webbing Sexual/Textual Agency in Autobiographical Narratives of Pleasure., Text and Performance Quarterly.
- Embodied Ambivalence: Reiterating and Transforming Phallocentrism in The Pillow Book., Text and Performance Quarterly.
- The Violence of Heteronormativity || Notes on Anohni’s Hopelessness., QED: A Journal of GLBTQ Worldmaking.
Honors, Awards and Affiliations
- Anne Morrison Chapman Visiting Lecturer, Converse College. “Ethics of Responsibility and the Violence of the Self.”
- Honors Forum Lecture Series: Dr. Naida Zukic Lost in Language||Writerly Violence||Art of Resistance September 30th 2015, Phoenix Arizona
- Faculty Publication Grant Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY Manhattan. ?Reading Butoh Body.? Summer 2016/2017. (Funded $5000.00).
- Fellowship Leave Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY Manhattan. ?Stretched! Beyond Body: Choreographing Ethics of Seeing.? Spring 2018.
