Lance Gharavi
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Phone: 480-727-3113
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DIXIE GAMMAGE HALL TEMPE, AZ 85287
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Mail code: 2602Campus: Tempe
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Lance Gharavi is an experimental artist and scholar, professor in the School of Music, Dance and Theatre, and Associate Director of ASU's Interplanetary Initiative.
An early pioneer in the field of digital performance, his work focuses on points of intersection between performance, technology, science, and religion. He specializes in leading transdisciplinary teams of artists, scientists, designers, and engineers to create compelling experiences and advance research.
Gharavi's scholarship on religion, technology, and performance has been published around the world and in several languages. His work appears in journals including Theatre Topics, Modern Drama, Text and Performance Quarterly, Ecumenica, The Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, PAJ, Esoterica, and Performance Matters. He is the author of "Western Esotericism in Russian Silver Age Drama" (New Grail 2008), editor of the anthology "Religion, Theatre, and Performance: Acts of Faith (Routledge 2012), and the translator for the special 100-year anniversary edition of Aleksandr Blok's symbolist masterpiece, "Roza I Krest" (Tsentr Knigi Rudomino 2013), published in Moscow.
Current projects include Port of Mars, an NSF-funded game-based platform for social science experiments to help future human space communities thrive; Mission: Interplanetary, a podcast about space exploration; and GHOST Lab, a DoD-funded laboratory/art installation for research into robotics and AI. He is the director of St. Bird, an art/science collective, the director of Ars Robotica, an initiative to advance research in robotics and AI through the arts, and the Executive Director of the Centre for Applied Eschatology, a conceptual art project about endings and our relations to them.
- Ph.D. University of Kansas 2000
- M.A. University of Kansas 1997
- B.F.A. Drake University 1989
- Experimental theatre and performance
- Digital performance
- Intersections of art, science, and technology
- Religion and performance
- Narrative
- Critical Theory
Courses
2025 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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THF 160 | Introduction to Storytelling |
THE 499 | Individualized Instruction |
THF 497 | Senior Project |
THF 497 | Senior Project |
THP 592 | Research |
THF 397 | Prof Development Seminar |
THF 397 | Prof Development Seminar |
THF 429 | Astrobiological Arts |
THE 494 | Special Topics |
THE 598 | Special Topics |
2024 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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THF 160 | Introduction to Storytelling |
THP 592 | Research |
THF 497 | Senior Project |
THF 497 | Senior Project |
THF 397 | Prof Development Seminar |
THF 397 | Prof Development Seminar |
THP 484 | Internship |
IPI 499 | Individualized Instruction |
THE 494 | Special Topics |
THE 598 | Special Topics |
HDA 598 | Special Topics |
HDA 494 | Special Topics |
2024 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
---|---|
THF 160 | Introduction to Storytelling |
THE 499 | Individualized Instruction |
THF 497 | Senior Project |
THF 497 | Senior Project |
THP 592 | Research |
THF 397 | Prof Development Seminar |
THF 397 | Prof Development Seminar |
THF 429 | Astrobiological Arts |
2023 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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THF 160 | Introduction to Storytelling |
THP 590 | Reading and Conference |
THP 592 | Research |
THF 497 | Senior Project |
THF 497 | Senior Project |
THF 397 | Prof Development Seminar |
THF 397 | Prof Development Seminar |
THP 484 | Internship |
2023 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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THF 160 | Introduction to Storytelling |
THE 499 | Individualized Instruction |
THF 497 | Senior Project |
THF 497 | Senior Project |
THP 592 | Research |
THF 397 | Prof Development Seminar |
THF 397 | Prof Development Seminar |
THF 429 | Astrobiological Arts |
2022 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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THE 440 | Experimental Theatre & Perform |
THF 160 | Introduction to Storytelling |
THP 590 | Reading and Conference |
THP 592 | Research |
THF 497 | Senior Project |
THF 497 | Senior Project |
THF 397 | Prof Development Seminar |
THF 397 | Prof Development Seminar |
THP 484 | Internship |
2022 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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THF 160 | Introduction to Storytelling |
THF 497 | Senior Project |
THF 497 | Senior Project |
THF 494 | Special Topics |
THF 598 | Special Topics |
THF 397 | Prof Development Seminar |
THF 397 | Prof Development Seminar |
SES 494 | Special Topics |
SES 598 | Special Topics |
DCE 484 | Internship |
2021 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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THF 160 | Introduction to Storytelling |
THP 590 | Reading and Conference |
THF 497 | Senior Project |
THF 497 | Senior Project |
THF 397 | Prof Development Seminar |
THF 397 | Prof Development Seminar |
THP 484 | Internship |
2021 Summer
Course Number | Course Title |
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THP 590 | Reading and Conference |
2021 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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THF 160 | Introduction to Storytelling |
HDA 494 | Special Topics |
THF 494 | Special Topics |
THF 598 | Special Topics |
THF 397 | Prof Development Seminar |
THF 397 | Prof Development Seminar |
SES 598 | Special Topics |
SES 494 | Special Topics |
2020 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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THE 440 | Experimental Theatre & Perform |
THF 160 | Introduction to Storytelling |
2020 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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THF 160 | Introduction to Storytelling |
SES 494 | Special Topics |
SES 598 | Special Topics |
HDA 494 | Special Topics |
THF 494 | Special Topics |
THF 598 | Special Topics |
2019 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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THE 440 | Experimental Theatre & Perform |
THF 160 | Introduction to Storytelling |
THP 590 | Reading and Conference |
THP 592 | Research |
THF 497 | Senior Project |
THF 497 | Senior Project |
FMP 499 | Individualized Instruction |