NEW SERIES: CALL FOR PROPOSALS

Queer Performance: International Practices, Histories and Approaches

Queer Performance explores what queer performance is and what it has been; it re-imagines what queer performance can do and critically engages with what its futures might hold. Considering work on a diverse set of stages – from nightclubs to national stages, art spaces to the street – the series actively seeks to open space for voices that have had limited, if any, space before. The series takes a broad view of the ways that queer narratives, bodies, identities and performance-making strategies approach the multiple expressions of queerness in performance.

We would like to invite proposals for single authored, co-authored and edited scholarly volumes that may connect with, but are not limited to, the following themes and areas:

  • queer nightlife performance and dance cultures

  • queer plays on mainstages

  • musicality and queerness

  • queer performance histories and historiographies

  • fatness and queerness

  • queer sound

  • queerness and affect

  • queer design

  • queer making processes

  • queer hauntings and hauntologies

  • HIV and AIDS in performance contagion and viral dramaturgies

  • trans performance
    performance work created by trans writers

  • performance work centring trans performers, stories and experiences

  • performance work directed by trans directors, makers, practitioners

  • transness as creative methodology

  • national/international perspectives on queer performance cultures

  • queer theatre-making: playwriting, directing, dramaturgy

  • queer archives and archiving

  • queer work in/with decolonial critique

  • queer intersections with race, ethnicity, nation, migration and diaspora

  • First Nations queer work

  • queer live art

  • drag in all its diversity and international locations

  • queer’s intersections with disabilities

  • queer takes on class and poverty in performance-making

SERIES EDITORS:

Alyson Campbell
Victorian College of the Arts, The University of Melbourne, Australia

Stephen Farrier
Rose Bruford College, UK

Nando Messias
The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, UK