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We are particularly interested in works that explore histories of race, gender, sexuality, class, and ethnicity in performance, and we encourage submissions that bring a creative approach to these fields.

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The Iowa series publishes scholarship on the historical contexts of theatre and cultural performance and features a full spectrum of historiographical methods and perspectives.

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Going to ATHE? Interested in pitching your book? I'm emailing in my role as Incoming Editor for the Studies in Theatre History and Culture series at the University of Iowa Press to extend an invitation to meet with me on July 23-24. DM for Calendly Link.

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It is up to all of us to make a better university.

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but even in the previous presidential administration our universities failed in their responses to the COVID pandemic, their brutalizing of student protestors, and their expansion of private partnerships that bind the university to militaristic and capitalist logics.

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We see this in GOP legislated destruction of faculty governance, mandated implementation of right-wing think tanks, and uncritical support of AI,

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Although the Trump administration has escalated the attack on US universities, Shana Agid, Melissa Burch, Priya Kandiswamy,and their collaborators note, “The moments before and ‘after’ the 2025 US presidential inauguration are contiguous.”

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I am particularly indebted to Ariel Nereson, who brought an emphasis on dance and on performance practices that has enriched this collection beyond what I could have imagined alone.

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The authors in this collection have all written really lovely essays thinking through the challenges of working in theater, dance, and performance departments and the ways that those departments might offer space to challenge the colonial, racial, and corporate structures that shape the university.

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With generous approval from Gianna Mosser and Vanderbilt University Press, the intro is accessible to ATHE registrants via the conference portal.

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Noe Montez @noemontez.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

My copies somehow traveled from a USPS Distribution Center in Atlanta to Mobile Alabama yesterday, but I'm starting to see many of the authors in the collection receive their collections and share from CRITICAL UNIVERSITY STUDIES AND PERFORMANCE.

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So happy to see this collection out in the world. I’m grateful for so many amazing scholars who are working to imagine a different university.

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shelby brewster, phd @shelbybrew.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

happy publication to all my coauthors in Critical University Studies and Performance, edited by the wonderful @noemontez.bsky.social + @arielnereson.bsky.social my essay draws on my most formative grad school experience: organizing a grad workers union. i'm honored to be in such brilliant company

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Noe Montez @noemontez.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

I also chair the ATDS Contingent Faculty Award whose deadline was extended to June 3 www.atds.org/awards-1

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Awards — American Theatre and Drama Society

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We will look to secure an advance contract with a press in the fall of 2026 and expect that initial drafts of chapters will be due by the first half of 2027.

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Please note, if your contribution is accepted, the anticipated final word count for your chapter will be 6,000 to 7,500 words, including works cited and any footnotes.

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Please send a title, 250-word abstract, and short bio to noe.montez@gmail.com, eero.email@gmail.com shannonmlwalsh@gmail.com by September 1.

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*Football in relation to live event tourism and mega-events; *Audience and fan experience and engagement; *Fantasy Football and sports betting and other forms of performance speculation.

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*The global circulation of football; *Overlapping training between football and the performing arts; *Characterizations of teams, fans, players, and their geographic regions; *Shared technical and design equipment between football and theatre;

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*Halftime shows, sideline entertainments, and other performing arts related to the football event; *The stadium as stage (lighting, scenography, costuming, props, etc.); *Stadiums and the space around them as places of performance and/or commerce—from campus geography to entertainment districts;

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*The aesthetics, language, and conventions of the game itself (e.g., beautiful plays, “color commentary,” endzone celebrations, etc.); *Football fashion, jewelry, hair, and style; *The theatricality of box seating and celebrity;

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Potential contributions might address: *The dramatic structures of football gameplay, seasons, championships; *The ways that rules are configured for theatricality / entertaining play (e.g., the tuck rule, changes to kickoff rules to increase returns, etc.;

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Contributors are encouraged to think structurally and comparatively across multiple teams, games, plays, or other particular case studies and examples.

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We are interested in the intersections of theatre and performance with football across the range of its play: youth football, college football, professional football, and/or flag football.

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Strong proposals will engage with key theories, terms, and ideas from theatre and performance studies, advancing conversations in the field while offering dramaturgical insights into football as performance.

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We are also interested in scholarship drawing from theatre, dance, and performance scholarship to explore how football engages with the complexities of race, gender, queerness, class, colonialism, globalism, and other political, social, and cultural discourses.

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This project traces the theatricality of football across a variety of sectors ranging from the game itself to performance spaces, labor, fandom, and spectacle within and around the game.

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Theatre and performance studies allow us a unique view towards the ways that sports extend into civic space, politics, and daily life. How can the disciplines of theatre, dance, and performance studies serve as an analytic for sport, generally, and American football, in particular?

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Putting out feelers for a new project. Drop me a note if you want to know more. CFP: Football and Performance Editors: Eero Laine, Noe Montez, and Shannon Walsh We are currently seeking chapter abstracts for an edited volume on football and performance.

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This application letter, the applicant’s C.V., and the names of three people supporting the applicant should be sent by June 1 as a single email attachment to: Noe Montez, ASTR Vice President for Publications (vppublications@astr.org).

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The letter of application should describe the applicant’s qualifications and include a description of any potential institutional support.

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The Associate Editor will serve two years, officially beginning on January 1, 2027, then become Editor on January 1, 2029. While the position comes with a stipend from ASTR, the possibility of some institutional support, such as aid for a graduate assistant, would be an asset.

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