<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div>Dear Colleagues,</div><div><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; line-break: after-white-space;"><div><br></div><div>With apologies for cross-posting, see the following CFP; thanks for sharing with interested colleagues and graduate students. We at <i>Theatre Annual </i>are excited to see another year of excellent essays and creative, challenging, and inspiring work!</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Peter Reed</div><div><br></div></div></div><div>
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color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Professor, Department of English</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Bondurant Hall C133</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">University of Mississippi</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">University, MS 38677</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><a href="https://english.olemiss.edu/peter-reed/">https://english.olemiss.edu/peter-reed/</a></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Editor, </span><a href="https://theatreannual.atds.org/"><i>Theatre Annual: A Journal of Theatre and Performance of the Americas</i></a></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><a href="https://link.springer.com/book/10.1057/9780230622715" title="https://link.springer.com/book/10.1057/9780230622715">Peter Reed, <i>Rogue Performances: Staging the Underclasses in Early American Theatre Culture</i> (Palgrave, 2009)</a></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><a href="https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/arts-theatre-culture/american-theatre/staging-haiti-nineteenth-century-america-revolution-race-and-popular-performance?format=HB&isbn=9781009100526#bookPeople" title="https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/arts-theatre-culture/american-theatre/staging-haiti-nineteenth-century-america-revolution-race-and-popular-performance?format=HB&isbn=9781009100526#bookPeople">Peter Reed, <i>Staging Haiti in Nineteenth-Century America: Revolution, Race and Popular Performance</i> (Cambridge UP, 2022)</a></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><h1 style="margin: 4.4pt 0in 0in 5.2pt; font-size: 16pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Deadline: February 15, 2026<o:p></o:p></h1><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0.15pt 0in 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.05pt 0in 0.0001pt 5.2pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 18.3pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">THEATRE ANNUAL<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 5.2pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 15.95pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">A Journal of Theatre and Performance of the Americas<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 5.2pt; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 13.7pt;">Call for Articles, 2026 Issue</p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 5.2pt; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 13.75pt;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0.05pt 0in 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0.05pt 7.85pt 0.0001pt 5.2pt; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: justify;"><i>Theatre Annual </i>is the oldest theatre periodical continuously published in the United States. It is dedicated<span style="letter-spacing: -0.4pt;"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing: -0.4pt;"> </span>examining<span style="letter-spacing: -0.6pt;"></span>theatre<span style="letter-spacing: -0.4pt;"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing: -0.6pt;"> </span>performance<span style="letter-spacing: -0.45pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.15pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.75pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -0.4pt;"> </span>Americas.<span style="letter-spacing: -0.5pt;"> </span>We<span style="letter-spacing: -0.4pt;"> </span>construe<span style="letter-spacing: -0.65pt;"> </span>“America”<span style="letter-spacing: -0.45pt;"> </span>broadly to include North, Central, and South America and the Caribbean Islands. Articles may treat work in these geographic areas or work from these areas that is presented elsewhere in the world. We welcome articles on the history and ethnography of performance, drawing from such areas as theatre<span style="letter-spacing: -0.8pt;"> </span>studies,<span style="letter-spacing: -0.6pt;"> </span>performance<span style="letter-spacing: -0.95pt;"> </span>studies,<span style="letter-spacing: -0.6pt;"> </span>popular<span style="letter-spacing: -0.85pt;"> </span>culture,<span style="letter-spacing: -0.6pt;"> </span>music,<span style="letter-spacing: -0.8pt;"> </span>anthropology,<span style="letter-spacing: -0.8pt;"> </span>dance,<span style="letter-spacing: -0.8pt;"> </span>communication, philosophy, folklore, history, and areas of interest that cross disciplinary<span style="letter-spacing: 0.05pt;"> </span>lines.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0.3pt 0in 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0in 5.85pt 0.0001pt 5.2pt; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: justify;">Submissions should follow the guidelines in The Chicago Manual of Style, 17<span style="font-size: 8pt; position: relative; top: -4pt;">th </span>edition (endnotes, no Works Cited list). Authors should submit articles as Word attachments to the editor, Dr. Jonathan Shandell (<a href="mailto:shandelj@arcadia.edu" style="color: purple;">shandelj@arcadia.edu</a>). In order to assist in the anonymous peer 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 5,000 to 6,500 words long including notes. Illustrations are highly desirable; authors are responsible for securing rights. Our <b>submission deadline is February 15, 2026</b>. Please allow at least eight weeks after the deadline for a<span style="letter-spacing: 0.7pt;"> </span>response.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0in 5.15pt 0.0001pt 5.2pt; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: justify;">Scholars wishing to write book reviews for <i>Theatre Annual </i>are invited to send an inquiry to the book review editor, Michael Lueger (mlueger@gmail.com). If accepted, reviewers are asked to prepare their manuscripts in conformity with the guidelines in The Chicago Manual of Style without footnotes and submit them as a Word attachment. Reviews should be 750 to 800 words for a review of a single book, 1,000 to 1,200 words for a two-book review, and 2,500 words for a five- or six-book review essay.<b> Submission deadline for book reviews is April 1, 2026</b>. 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