Staging Academia: Campus Controversies in America Drama
Staging Academia: Campus Controversies in American Drama
American Theatre & Drama Society Panel
at the American Literature Association
30th Annual Conference May 23-26 2019 Boston
The American Literature Association is a coalition of literary and drama societies devoted to the study of American authors. Since 1989, ALA’s annual conferences have provided scholars and artists from around the world a space in which to interact and to explore the richness and diversity of American writing. The American Theatre & Drama Society is dedicated to the study of theatre and drama in and of the Americas, its varied histories, traditions, literatures, identities, and performances within its cultural contexts. In furtherance of this goal, ATDS solicits proposals for its guaranteed panel at the American Literature Association Annual Conference in May 2019.
From Susan Glaspell’s Inheritors (1920) to Joshua Harmon’s Admissions (2018) American playwrights have used college and university campuses as particularly conducive settings for dramatic investigations of issues as relevant today as they were a century ago: freedom of speech, immigration, sexual harassment, racism, violence, and other forms of inequity and discrimination based on cultural or national identity. We invite proposals that consider plays and performances with college and university settings that address these and related issues. We welcome analytical papers employing any theoretical/critical approach as well as analyses of plays in production.
Please submit a 250-word abstract by December 31, 2018 to Al Dabiri, mdabiri@mail.missouri.edu. Panelists will be notified by January 31, 2019. Panelists are expected to be or to become ATDS members. For more information on ATDS, or to join or renew, please visit https://www.atds.org/