<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><p class="s3" style="text-align: start; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Dear colleagues:</p><p class="s3" style="text-align: start; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Since THEATRE ANNUAL has now revitalized and expanded its mandate to include Canadian theatre and performance, I thought you might find the following call for papers to be of interest.</p><p class="s3" style="text-align: start; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><br></p><p class="s3" style="text-align: start; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Erica Stevens Abbitt</p><p class="s3" style="text-align: start; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">School of Dramatic Art</p><p class="s3" style="text-align: start; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">University of Windsor </p><p class="s3" style="text-align: start; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">========================================</p><p class="s3" style="text-align: start; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-weight: bold; text-align: center;">THEATRE ANNUAL</span></p><p class="s3" style="text-align: start; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s5" style="font-weight: bold;">A Journal </span><span class="s5" style="font-weight: bold;">of Theatre and Performance of the Americas</span></span></p><p class="s3" style="text-align: start; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="s7" style="text-align: start; margin: 0px 151px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: thin; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="s6" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Call for Papers</span></p><p class="s7" style="text-align: start; margin: 0px 151px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: thin; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s8" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">2015</span><span class="s8" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"> Issue</span></span></p><p class="s3" style="text-align: start; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="s11" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s9" style="font-style: italic;">Theatre Annual</span><span class="s10"> is the oldest theatre periodical continuously published in America. </span><span class="s10">With the 2015 volume, the journal marks a shift to a new focus and a new affiliation. Re-subtitled “A Journal of Theatre and Performance of the Americas,” </span><span class="s9" style="font-style: italic;">Theatre Annual </span><span class="s10">is now an official publication of the American Theatre and Drama Society. We construe “American” broadly to include North, Central, and South America and the Caribbean Islands. Articles may treat work </span><span class="s9" style="font-style: italic;">in </span><span class="s10">these geographic areas; it may also treat work <i>from these</i></span><span class="s10"> areas that is presented elsewhere in the world. Within this scope, we welcome articles</span><span class="s10"> on the history and ethnography of performance, drawing from such areas as theatre studies, performance studies, popular culture, music, anthropology, communication, dance, philosophy, folklore, history, and the special areas of interest that cross disciplinary lines</span><span class="s10">.</span><span class="s10"> Please note that the focus on theatre and performance largely precludes essays that focus on literary criticism or theory</span><a name="_GoBack"></a><span class="s10">.</span></span></p><p class="s11" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="s11" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s10">For the 2015 issue, we invite articles</span><span class="s10"> that </span><span class="s10">help us celebrate and foreground our new title and affiliation. Papers about any facet of Canadian, Latin American, or Caribbean theatre and performance will be especially welcome. Essays about any facet of American theatre or performance presented in Europe, Asia, Africa, or Oceania will be of great interest. </span><span class="s10">Papers are welcome on any subject that fits the journal’s mission.</span></span></p><p class="s11" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="s11" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s10">Submissions should follow the guidelines in The Chicago Manual of Style (endnotes, no Works Cited list)</span><span class="s10">. Authors should </span><span class="s10">submit articles as Word attachments to the editor, Dorothy Chansky, Department of Theatre and Dance, Texas Tech University, using the email address</span><span class="s12"> <a href="mailto:dorothychansky@gmail.com">dorothychansky@gmail.com</a>. </span><span class="s10">In order to assist in the anonymous </span><span class="s10">peer</span><span class="s10">review process, the author’s identity should not be revealed in the manuscript except on a separate title page that should also include full contact information (academic affiliation, mailing address, home, cell, and work telephone numbers, and email address). Articles should be 5000-6500 words long </span><span class="s9" style="font-style: italic;">including notes</span><span class="s10">. Illustrations are highly desirable; authors are responsible for securing rights. </span><span class="s13" style="font-weight: bold;">Submission deadline is December 15, 201</span><span class="s13" style="font-weight: bold;">4</span><span class="s10">. Please allow eight weeks for a response.</span></span></p><p class="s11" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="s3" style="text-align: start; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s9" style="font-style: italic;">Theatre Annual</span><span class="s10">,</span><span class="s9" style="font-style: italic;"> </span><span class="s10">founded in 1942 by the Theatre Library Association, is now published in the fall of each year by The College of William and Mary in Virginia</span><span class="s10">. More information available at </span><span class="s12"><a href="http://theatreannual.wm.edu/">http://theatreannual.wm.edu/</a></span></span></p><p class="s3" style="text-align: start; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s12"><br></span></span></p></div><blockquote type="cite" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><blockquote type="cite" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><div></div></blockquote><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><blockquote type="cite" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><div></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><div></div></blockquote></body></html>