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 […]
Call for Theatre Annual EditorThe American Theatre & Drama Society seeks applications for Editor of Theatre Annual, ATDS’s peer-reviewed journal. The position has a four-year term that includes a two-year training/learning period as Associate Editor to make the position more accessible and to maintain institutional memory. Description of the Journal: Theatre Annual is the oldest theatre periodical continuously […]
Brown University Library is pleased to announce a call for applications for the 2024 NEH Institute on Born-Digital Scholarly Publishing which will occur this July. Thank you in advance for sharing the following call for applications widely with your networks. It is much appreciated. Call for ApplicationsBrown University Digital Publications invites applications for participation in an NEH Institute […]
Call for JADT Performance Review Editor (2024-2026) The Journal of American Drama and Theatre is now accepting applications for the position of Performance Review Editor. Responsibilities include: commissioning reviews of theatre and performance in the Americas, broadly defined; answering queries about conducting reviews; and editing reviews for publication. The Performance Review Editor will serve a two-year […]
Transnational Theatre Histories (Palgrave) illuminates vectors of cultural exchange, migration, appropriation, and circulation that long predate the more recent trends of neoliberal globalization. Books in the series document and theorize the emergence of theatre, opera, dance, and performance against backgrounds such as imperial expansion, technological development, modernity, industrialization, colonization, diplomacy, and cultural self-determination. Proposals are invited […]
Philadelphia Theatre Research Symposium 2024Theatre as Catalyst for Liberation: Creativity Within Constraints Friday, May 3, 2024The Philadelphia Theatre Research Symposium (PTRS) is seeking abstracts for the 2024 gathering of theater scholars and practitioners. We invite proposals for panels and roundtables for our in-person conference at Villanova University this May. This year’s theme is “Theatre as […]
Revenge is Mad Hard:Fat Ham and the Question of Cultural ReclamationSince its digital debut in April of 2021, subsequent Pulitzer win, off-Broadway run, Broadway run, and recent flurry of regional productions, Fat Ham has taken North America by storm. In re-framing the story of Hamlet from within a Black, southern family barbeque, playwright James Ijames has opened the door for […]