[Candrama] CFP: The Routledge Companion to LGBTQ+ Theatre and Performance in North America

[Benjamin Gillespie]

***Apologies for cross-posting.***

CALL FOR PAPERS:

The Routledge Companion to LGBTQ+ Theatre and Performance in North America

Editors: Bess Rowen & Benjamin Gillespie

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.

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: 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? 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.

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. Please feel free to send proposals about any and all topics
you feel fit into the categories below.

The volume will be divided into six distinct but related sections:


   1.

   LGBTQ+ Embodied Performance: 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.



   2.

   LGBTQ+ Dramaturgies & Dramatic Literature: 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?



   3.

   Queering Time: 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?



   4.

   Queering Place: 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)?



   5.

   LGBTQ+ Methods: How is LGBTQ+ performance created, studied, and taught?
   What particular methodologies have queer and trans people created to push
   back against heteronormative assumptions about theatre and performance?



   6.

   LGBTQ+ Voices: Who are the people currently defining the field of LGBTQ+
   theatre and performance and how do they view the past? This section will
   contain a series of brief interviews or roundtables with playwrights,
   actors, directors, performance artists, and other production team members.
   Each interview will have a critical introduction to help contextualize the
   subject.


We aim to assemble a range of diverse voices that reflect the multiplicity
of approaches within the field. We especially encourage proposals from
scholars, artists, and practitioners whose work extends beyond traditional
disciplinary boundaries. By bringing these perspectives into dialogue, this
volume aims to foster a rich, interdisciplinary exchange that advances the
study and practice of LGBTQ+ performance throughout North America.


PROPOSAL SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

Proposals should include a title and 300-word abstract as well as your
name, institutional affiliation/position, and a brief bio (100 words) sent
to bess.rowen at villanova.edu and  benjamin.gillespie at baruch.cuny.edu by March
1, 2025. Once chapters are confirmed, full drafts (4000-5000 words) will be
due by September 1, 2025. Scholars and artists from all career stages and
backgrounds are encouraged to apply.
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