<div dir="ltr"><div><div><i>**Apologies for cross-posting.**</i></div><div><br></div><div><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-323753de-7fff-baa3-6832-142c0fe13f09"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">CALL FOR PAPERS:</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">The Routledge Companion to LGBTQ+ Theatre and Performance in North America</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Editors</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">: Bess Rowen & Benjamin Gillespie</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">We invite proposals for this edited volume exploring the intersections of LGBTQ+ performance across North America including the United States, Mexico, Canada, Central America, and the Caribbean. Although there have been several key works written about queer, trans, and LGBTQ+ theatres, there has yet to be a contemporary volume that provides an extensive overview of the key methodologies, histories, identities, and pedagogies surrounding this field focused specifically on the geographic region of North America.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">This companion will provide a comprehensive resource for those teaching in this area by creating a singular volume that combines history and theory through a wide array of methodological approaches. The sections of this volume are organized around every facet of LGBTQ+ performance: </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Who does it? What is it? When and where does it happen? How does it happen? What are the affective and critical responses to it? </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Considering the topic’s broad range, this companion also aims to capture a breadth of approaches to making, training for, analyzing, and documenting LGBTQ+ performance histories, theories, people, ideas, and places. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">We feel preserving and highlighting the important contributions that LGBTQ+ theatre and performance have made and continue to make in North America cultures is more crucial than ever at this uncertain social, political, and environmental moment in our history. This companion will cover both prominent performers and performances as well as those that might be lesser-known. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Please feel free to send proposals about any and all topics you feel fit into the categories below.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">The volume will be divided into six distinct but related sections:</span></p><br><ol style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:upper-roman;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" role="presentation"><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">LGBTQ+ Embodied Performance:</span><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> Who are the performers and makers who have helped both to define and to transcend what LGBTQ+ theatre and performance are and can be? What performance and acting aesthetics are key parts of queer and trans performance? We are especially interested in an intersectional approach to identity incorporating perspectives on race, age, class, and ability as they intersect with sexuality and gender. We also aim to represent Indigenous voices and perspectives into the volume.</span></p></li></ol><br><ol style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" start="2"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:upper-roman;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt" role="presentation"><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">LGBTQ+ Dramaturgies & Dramatic Literature: </span><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">What is the field of LGBTQ+ theatre and performance? Where have the ideas that created and shaped this field come from? And what is the current state of queer and trans playwriting in the Americas?</span></p></li></ol><br><ol style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" start="3"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:upper-roman;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" role="presentation"><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Queering Time:</span><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> When in time does LGBTQ+ performance happen? How does performance queer temporality and defy easy chronologies of linear progress? What other aspects of time might be thought about in LGBTQ+ theatre and performance histories? How can we rethink chronological models of history?</span></p></li></ol><br><ol style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" start="4"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:upper-roman;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" role="presentation"><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Queering Place: </span><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Where does LGBTQ+ performance happen? How do queer and trans performances work with and against legislation that challenges the queer right to exist? How do urban and rural places connect and differ? How are queer and trans performances staging responses to climate change and the environment (i.e. eco approaches to LGBTQ+ performance)? </span></p></li></ol><br><ol style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" start="5"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:upper-roman;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times 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