We are pleased to invite submissions that interrogate aesthetics, performativity, and matters of Environmentalism in Black and African Diasporic theatre history, contemporary performance and production, dramatic literature, digital art, artistic leadership, pedagogy and praxis, and nature-based religious and spiritual performativity. We invite authors to investigate, meditate and reflect on, and respond to:Land acknowledgments.Environmental sustainability conversations […]

Elizabeth Freeman writes in Time Binds: Queer Temporalities, Queer Histories (2010) of the epistemology of nonbinary and transgender people in history: “Trans studies has a history problem, albeit one that scholars from all branches of the field are busy working to address.” She contends that scholars need to argue that trans lives and scholarship existed […]

In the US, calls for prison abolition have gained momentum in recent years and have reinforced the distinction between reform (developing less violent methods of policing, for example) and abolition (creating a world where policing is not necessary). Abolition as an alternative to reform animates many justice movements that seek to eradicate structural inequality. Abolitionist […]

Special Performance edition of Interdisciplinary Humanities, the journal of Humanities Education and Research Association (https://www.utep.edu/liberalarts/hera/).“Performance in the Humanities”Deadline: October 31, 2023Word limit: 6000This special edition will investigate how performance shapes our experience of the humanities. In the four decades since NYU offered the first degree in “Performance Studies,” the advent of the internet and social […]

Theatre Topics Special Issue: Comedy & Embodiment Call for Papers This special issue of Theatre Topics calls for cutting edge research that places comedy squarely in a theatre and performance studies context. As comedy scholars, we have noticed a hunger to research and further define the interdisciplinary, oft-muddy field of comedy studies. Popular forms of comedy (such […]

Queer and Trans Readings of the Theatrical PastA Special Section of Theatre History StudiesVolume 45 (2025)Co-Editors: Les Gray (they/them) and Kristin Leahey (she/her)Elizabeth Freeman writes in Time Binds: Queer Temporalities, Queer Histories (2010) of the epistemology of nonbinary and transgender people in history: “Trans studies has a history problem, albeit one that scholars from all branches of […]

Performance, Playhouse, Practice, and PlayThe Blackfriars Conference Returns!ATTEND THE CONFERENCE: NOVEMBER 2-5, 2023This November, the American Shakespeare Center will welcome conference attendees back to the Blackfriars Playhouse, where we will join together each day of the conference to hear papers, celebrate attending the plays in our season, and enjoy other social events and activities. Additionally, […]

CALL FOR CHAPTERSAugust Wilson in Context Edited by Khalid Y. Long and Isaiah Matthew WoodenThe co-editors of August Wilson in Context (currently under contract with Cambridge University Press) are seeking additional chapter contributors. The volume aims to grant Wilson and his singular body of work nuanced critical and contextual analyses. To that end, it will […]

New England Theatre Journal Call for Papers New England Theatre Journal (a publication of the New England Theatre Conference) invites submissions for its year 2023 edition. A refereed publication, New England Theatre Journal is concerned with advancing the study and practice of theatre and drama by printing articles of the highest quality on a broad range of subjects, including […]

Theatre and Performance Notes and CounternotesTo be published by Penn State University Press, Theatre and Performance Notes and Counternotes is a new theatre studies generalist journal of short-to-medium length research articles, response articles, and discussion articles. (It’s initial planned launch was delayed due to previous financial constraints, but the financial issues are resolved now and the inaugural […]

TxETA Higher Education Research Conference2023 Call for SubmissionsMay 31-June 2, 2023; Austin Community College – Highland Campus The Texas Educational Theatre Association invites proposals for paper, roundtable, and poster/digital presentations for the 2nd Annual Higher Education Research Conference“KEEP THEATRE WEIRD COLLABORATIVE”This theme/prompt can and should be interpreted broadly, encompassing all forms and ideas of the ways […]

New England Theatre JournalCall for PapersNew England Theatre Journal (a publication of the New England Theatre Conference) invites submissions for its year 2023 edition. A refereed publication, New England Theatre Journal is concerned with advancing the study and practice of theatre and drama by printing articles of the highest quality on a broad range of subjects, including […]

Applied Theatre and Gender Justice(to be published by Routledge in 2024). This collection of essays seeks to highlight the value and efficacy of applied theatre–both in the US and internationally–to address issues of concern for gender marginalized groups: cis-women and girls, trans people, non-binary folx, and, those who identity as female regardless of their assigned […]

The Theatre Annual editorial team is pleased to invite article submissions for its 75th volume.  We welcome submissions from scholars at any career stage, and especially encourage submissions from graduate students and early career scholars.  Have something ready to go? Get it off your desktop. We love an early submission.Have something in the hopper? You still have time. The […]

CALL TO ACTIONAmerican Theatre and Drama Society (ATDS) Sessions at the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) Conference, Austin, TX, August 3–6, 2023 ATHE 2023 –– BUILDING FROM THE RUBBLE: CENTERING CAREATHE’s 2023 Call to Action urges us to build anew to initiate transformative change across our field. For ATHE 2023, we will develop […]

Tennessee Williams Scholars ConferenceNew Orleans, LAFriday, March 24, 2023presenters will be compensated for their participationhttp://www.tennesseewilliamsstudies.org/conference/Deadline for submissions:November 15, 2022Sessions at this one-day event do not consist of traditional conference papers. Instead, panels feature scholarly conversations that spring from Williams’s work and its many contexts and futures. We invite brief proposals for topics related to Tennessee […]