The Journal of American Drama and Theatre (JADT) is looking for performance reviewers to write on professional productions or performances of any type in the Americas, broadly defined. We prefer submissions that have a clearly articulated theoretical/critical viewpoint and strongly encourage reviews that center work created by artists from historically marginalized communities. Reviews that have a timely […]
33rd Annual CDE ConferenceKonstanz, Germany 19-22 June 2025 Abstracts Due: 15 September, 2024 The German Society for Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English (CDE) is pleased to announce its 33rd Annual Conference (19-22 June 2025). It is organized by the University of Konstanz and will be held as a residential conference at Hotel St. Elisabeth in […]
Submissions Due September 30, 2024 Teaching Notes is the section of the American Journal of Arts Management where instructors teaching arts management and related topics in higher education share reflections on assignments they design and courses they teach for the inspiration and learning of fellow teachers. Recently published pieces have been on topics such as teaching about how to […]
Applications are now open for the 2025-2026 research fellowship program at the Harry Ransom Center. We anticipate awarding up to 60 postdoctoral, doctoral, creative, and independent scholar fellowships in the upcoming cycle for projects which would benefit from research with the extensive collections held at the Ransom Center. Fellowships provide travel and research stipends ranging from one week to two months. […]
Theatre Annual is looking for a few additional book reviewers for the 2024 volume. Please let us know if you are interested in helping out with this service to the journal and the profession! If you would like to review one of the books below, or if you have ideas for other books (or performances, or podcasts) […]
Submissions Due August 30, 2024 Call for papers for the volume on Ecodramaturgies for Routledge Focus on Dramaturgy series, edited by Magda Romanska: The term “ecodramaturgy,” coined by Theresa May in 2007, implies how the environment and climate change are interrogated and promoted through performance. While connections between storytelling and the natural world go back […]
May 16, 2025 Library of Congress, Washington D.C. Proposals Due August 19, 2024 Convenor: Dominic Broomfield-McHugh and the Library of Congress Music DivisionCommittee: Mark Eden Horowitz, Caitlin Miller, Colleen Montgomery, Stacy Wolf The centrality of women as artists to the American musical on stage and screen has long been acknowledged by scholarship (e.g. Coleman and […]
Spring 2025 Submissions due December 1, 2024 The American Theatre and Drama Society invites submissions for its Spring 2025 issue of the Journal of American Drama and Theatre. Membership in ATDS is not required for submission of an article, but submissions from members are especially encouraged. This special issue turns to the ideas of censorship […]
Vol. 46 (2026) Submissions due January 1, 2025 Co-Editors: Patrick McKelvey and Samuel Yates In 2010, Susan Schweik observed that “with the notable exception of histories of the freak show, work in disability performance studies tends to focus on contemporary examples.”[1] Fifteen years later, the field’s historiographic impulses hardly seem as settled as they once were. […]
Publication Development ForumCall for Works-in-Progress fromContingent Faculty Colleagues ZOOM Conference: October 11, 2024 – 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. EST Invitation The American Theatre and Drama Society invites you to a Works-in-Progress Publication Development Forum for contingent faculty colleagues. Specifically designed to support faculty in contingent to positions, this forum invites them to share and develop […]
Cachimbonas!: Celebrating Latina/e Dramatists & Social EngagementCall for Abstracts of Papers and PresentationsOn Thursday, April 24, through April 26, 2025, the University of Missouri Department of Theatre and Performance in cooperation with the Cambio Center, MU Libraries, and The Bridge, will host a new theatre and drama conference, Cachimbonas!: Celebrating Latina/e Dramatists & Social Engagement, which […]
States/Stages of Emergency: An ATDS Pre-Conference Tuesday, July 30, 2024 over Zoom Proposals to participate as a panelist due: June 15, 2024 This is an emergency. From neoliberal capitalism and censorship of our stages and our syllabi to physical assaults on our students and legislated attacks on anti-racist programming and queer, trans, and nonbinary people, […]
States/Stages of Emergency: An ATDS Pre-Conference Tuesday, July 30, 2024 over Zoom Proposals to participate as a panelist due: June 15, 2024 This is an emergency. From neoliberal capitalism and censorship of our stages and our syllabi to physical assaults on our students and legislated attacks on anti-racist programming and queer, trans, and nonbinary people, […]
ATDS First Book Bootcamp 2024 Can you write your first book? Yes, you can!The annual First Book Bootcamp pairs contingent and tenure-stream faculty with experienced faculty mentors to develop book proposals. Mentoring faculty will read participants’ materials in advance and meet during the Bootcamp in one-on-one sessions for targeted feedback. In addition to these one-on-one mentoring […]
CATR (Canadian Association for Theatre Research) ConferenceJune 17-20, Montreal Panel: “Leading With Performance: Interdisciplinary Arts-Led Innovations Inside the Neoliberal University”Organizers: Kim Solga, Amala Poli, and Masha Kouznetsova, Western University Scholars of theatre and performance studies know that performance is a “mobile critical paradigm,” as Kathleen Gallagher and Barry Freeman provocatively write in the introduction to In Defense […]
Plants Beyond BordersAlthough they are the most abundant life form on earth, plants have received scant attention from ecocritics until recently. As allies in the rethinking of human exceptionalism and the limits of human conceptions of nation, race, sexuality, disability, and invasion, plants challenge us to reimagine our philosophical and material relationship to the beings […]