Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Featured Articles
In Search of a Compelling Narrative: Behind the Scenes with Theatre Survey’s Leo Cabranes-Grant

Theatre SurveyTheatre Survey editor Leo Cabranes-Grant talks with ASTR Online editor Charlotte McIvor about the future of the journal and our field.

 

CM: How would you describe the place of Theatre Survey amongst other journals in the field?

 

LCG: I see TS as a journal in which the fundamental skills of historiography (accuracy of detail, archival documentation, philological understanding, and a nuanced sense of how past and present concerns inflect each other) intersect contemporary methodological and thematic investigations. Other journals are associated with highly specific materials or conceptual approaches,

 

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Assessing the Independent Scholar: Strategies and Suggestions for the Field

by Aimee Zygmonski

 

INT. A Bookstore - Afternoon
 
PHD STUDENTS and the SIMPSON FAMILY. BART begins to taunt
the students working in the store.
 
MARGE
Don’t make fun of graduate
students. They just made a
terrible life choice.
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New Paradigms in Graduate Education Survey: Facts, Figures and the Next Steps

 

A Report from the Committee compiled by Heather Nathans
 
After the February 2011 Executive Committee meeting, the New Paradigms Committee (comprised of J. Ellen Gainor, Kimi Johnson, Odai Johnson, Esther Kim Lee, Charlotte McIvor, Heather S. Nathans, and Sandra Richards) began designing a survey for the ASTR membership to gather information on a range of topics including:
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Mentoring Our Doctoral Students

 

Tracy C. Davis on Conscious Approaches to Optimizing Students’ Experience
 
A recent study reports that with each passing year students spend in a doctoral program, they are less satisfied with their experience, less likely to pursue a research career, and less content with guidance received from advisors. Overall, just 57% of American doctoral students reported satisfaction with their on-going training.[i] This leaves a lot of room for improvement.
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Notes from the President - January 2012

From ASTR President, Rhonda Blair

 
First – my thanks to all who’ve contributed to the work of ASTR over not just the past quarter, but throughout 2011, whether as an officer, committee member, or participant in the conference and our publications activities. Each of you has mattered, and I’m looking forward to collaborating with you over the coming year on the important work that we do.
 
ASTR Bylaw Change Motion: Members should shortly be receiving a motion via email from Secretary Marla Carlson to establish a Vice President for Publications and a Vice President for Awards; the current Vice President, as a result of this change, would become the Vice President for Conferences. This would be done without increasing the size of the Executive Committee, since the two new VPs would take the place of two “regular” members.
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Announcements

ASTR Online Search for Associate Editors

ASTR Online seeks:

1.) Two Associate Editors for Features
2.) One Associate Editor for Media

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ASTR Announces 2011 Award Winners

 

ASTR is pleased to recognize our 2011 award winners!
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Member News

Robin Bernstein

Robin Bernstein published Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights (New York University Press, 2011). This book argues that performance - both on-stage and in everyday life - was the key technology by which ideas about race and ideas about childhood intertwined in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. More information about Racial Innocence is available at http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~rbernst/RacialInn.html.

 
John Patrick Bray

John Patrick Bray is now in his second semester as a lecturer in the Department of Theatre and Film Studies at the University of Georgia. His article, "'What's Wrong with this Play?': Workshops, Audiences, and Horizons of Expectations" was published in Platform, Volume 6, Number 1. A monologue from his play, Liner Notes, will be published in the 2011 Best Stage Monologues and Scenes for Women (Smith and Kraus, Inc.) in late January. His plays Liner Notes and Goodnight Lovin' Trail are now available through Indie Theater Now (www.indietheaternow.com), and his play Resonator Blues has been published by JAC Publishing and Promotions.

 

 
David Carlyon

David Carlyon’s "'Find Love's Prick': Touchstone Improvises," an exploration in Shakespearean interpretation, was published as the lead article in the August 2011 ANQ. He was consultant for the PBS program, History Detectives, for a fall segment on Dan Rice. Last year, the Westchester Review published his poem, "Encomiast." In October he was invited to Minneapolis to deliver the Humanities & Fine Arts Fall Convocation Speech at Augsburg College.

 

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