Rethinking the Biography of the Actor and the Entertaineressay cluster curated by Beth Holmgren (Duke University)Whereas biography has been characterized as one of the least prescribed and most undertheorized of the genres in the literary canon, the biographies of both serious actors and popular entertainers have long remained formulaic and simplistic in recycling the celebrity […]

The Journal of American Drama and Theatre  Special Issue: Asian American Dramaturgies Spring 2022  Call for Submissions    “Dramaturgical critique deploys research, theory, and scholarship for reparative ends.”  – Dorinne Kondo, Worldmaking: Race, Performance, and the Work of Creativity   The American Theatre and Drama Society’s 2022 special issue of the Journal of American Drama […]

The 11th International Conference on Eugene O’Neill Longing and Belonging Suffolk University Boston, Massachusetts July 6-9, 2022As we head into the 20s of the 21 st century, we mark the centennials of key O’Neill plays that introduced his voice to a wider audience. Beyond the Horizon premiered on Broadway in 1920 and ushered in a […]

‘PRESENCE’ – TDR Consortium Special Issue by Yale University Coedited by Kimberly Jannarone, Elise Morrison, and Tavia Nyong’oFor nearly three decades, scholars have debated whether performance is constituted by the mutual presence of live bodies in coterminous time and space. Since its inception, this debate has been influenced by poststructuralism, feminism, queer theory, phenomenology and critical race theory. […]

Thornton Wilder Journal Special Issue: Teaching Wilder Looking for articles about all levels: graduate, undergraduate, high school; and from both literary and theatrical perspectives.The article should be approximately 10-12 pages in length, and need not be a scholarly piece but rather more of a personal essay; the deadline is January 15, 2022.  Please email submissions or queries to Jackson R. […]

“Circum-Atlantic Drama and Performance”The Drama and Performance Forum of the Modern Language Association (MLA) Sponsored Session2022 MLA Annual Convention in Washington, DC from January 6 to 9, 2022.We welcome proposals on diverse types of drama and performance in the circum-Atlantic world during any period and are especially interested in topics that foreground sites outside of the […]

Special Issue of Performance Matters Edited by Karin Shankar and Julia SteinmetzThe Syllabus is the Thing: Materialities of the Performance Studies Classroom What does a performance studies syllabus instantiate or call into being in the classroom? As an interdiscipline, performance studies has been incorporated as an academic field while still remaining sensationally unsettled in its interventions, methods, and […]

ATHE’s Music Theatre/Dance Focus Group:The Bruce Kirle Memorial Debut Panel in Music Theatre/DanceDeadline: March 1, 2021The Music Theatre/Dance (MT/D) Focus Group of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) announces its call for papers for the Bruce Kirle Memorial Debut Panel in Music Theatre/Dance at the 2021 ATHE conference in Austin, TX from August […]

To Be Delivered Online in ZoomThe Eugene O’Neill International SocietyAmerican Literature Association ConferenceBoston: July 7-11, 2021The Eugene O’Neill International Society hopes to have sessions at the American Literature Association (ALA) conference in Boston, July 7-11.Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the conference now will have some sessions done completely or partially remotely online. There will not […]

The Eugene O’Neill International SocietyThe Comparative Drama ConferenceOrlando: October 14-16, 2021The Eugene O’Neill International Society hopes to have sessions at the 44th Annual Comparative Drama Conference (CDC) in Orlando, October 14-16, 2021.Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, plans for this conference remain flexible; as of February 2021, it is not yet clear whether the conference will […]

2021 Shaw Symposium  The Shaw Festival, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, CA and online via Zoom 16-18 July 2021The International Shaw Society and the Shaw Festival invite proposals to present new critical or creative research at the Eighteenth Annual Summer Shaw Symposium. We welcome proposals that offer a focused analysis of The Devil’s Disciple (the Bernard Shaw play running […]

ATDS and MLA Washington DC 6-9 January 2022Title: “Multilingualism in American Drama”How do multilingual American plays, live performances, masters, or movements in American drama and theatre from any period offer strategies for historicizing national cultures and/or identities? The papers on this panel may also help us to consider the diverse ways – linguistic, performative, and […]

Galvanizing Dance Studies: Building Anti-Racist Praxis, Transformative Connections, and Movement(s) of Radical CareDance Studies Association, October 14-17, 2021 Rutgers University/Hyatt Regency, New Brunswick New JerseyAdanna Jones and Jeff Friedman, program co-chairsJulia M. Ritter, local arrangements chairThe DSA 2021 Program Committee collectively re-imagines this international conference as a vessel that builds, explores, collaborates, performs, and agitates current […]

To be published by Penn State University Press, Theatre and Performance Notes and Counternotes–a new theatre studies generalist journal of short-to-medium length research articles, response articles, and discussion articles–has decided to start its existence with a (hopefully-blockbuster) double issue in 2021. If you would would like your work to be considered for this inaugural issue, please submit […]

Comparative Drama Conference will meet again in person in Orlando, Florida on October 14-16, 2021. However, the CDC board realizes that it may be difficult for some people to get to Orlando, so we will be offering the opportunity for a virtual reading of one’s paper.  (You don’t have to know what your status will […]

Freakery Too: Further Explorations of the Extraordinary Body in PerformanceIn 1996, the publication of the anthology Freakery: Cultural Spectacles of the Extraordinary Body, edited by Rosemarie Garland Thomson, defined a generation of scholarship on the topic of the performance of disability. It is hard to imagine any major work of disability theory written since that is not in some way […]