| Volunteers Needed for the Work of ASTR |
Volunteers Needed for the work of ASTR
The work of ASTR is large and requires the participation of a great many people.
Please let those of us named below know if you would like to be considered for a particular job.
There will also be a session at the Montreal conference, Saturday, Nov 19, 7:15-8:15 am, “Demystifying ASTR: How and Why We Do What We Do, And How You Can Get Involved,” where questions will be answered about ASTR involvement.
If you’re interested, contact the appropriate person below.
Conferences - Stacy Wolf, Vice President of ASTR -
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Fellowships and Awards Committees - Rhonda Blair, President of ASTR -
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Fellowships and Awards Committees Nominating Committee – Rhonda Blair, President of ASTR -
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Ad hoc Committee on New Paradigms in Graduate Education - Heather Nathans, Chair -
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Graduate Student Caucus - David Calder, President of GSC - |
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Announcements
| In Memoriam: Glenda Dickerson (1945-2012) |
by E.J. Westlake
Glenda Dickerson, director, writer, folklorist, educator, and actor, passed away on January 12, 2012 in her home in Ypsilanti, Michigan.
Born in Houston in 1945, Glenda was trained primarily as a director and was a prolific writer. Many knew Glenda's work: Re/membering Aunt Jemima: A Menstrual Show, co-written with Breena Clarke, and For My People, for which she won a Peabody Award. |
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| ASTR Announces 2012 Election Slate |
ASTR is pleased to announce the slate of nominees who will run for election in 2012. The slate of nominees has been approved by the ASTR Executive Committee. ASTR members will receive an e-mail invitation to vote on May 1, and voting will close on May 31.
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| 2012 Working Session Calls for Papers Now Online |
The American Society for Theatre Research 2012 Conference Program Co-Chairs, Patricia Ybarra and Patrick Anderson, are pleased to announce that the Calls for the ASTR 2012 Conference Working Sessions are now posted.
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Member News
| Sara Brady |
Sara Brady's new book, Performance, Politics and the War on Terror: 'Whatever It Takes' is out from Palgrave Macmillan. The book uses a performance studies lens to analyze a variety of events in order to tease out the ways in which meaning has been made in the contemporary global sociopolitical environment. By discussing events in such diverse contexts as conventional theatre, political protest, popular entertainments, military training exercises, performance art, and other sites of performance, the book offers a unique, interdisciplinary approach to the study of culture and politics. It argues that the reliance on performance by governments and media alike in post-9/11 United States and abroad - particularly in the context of the war on terror - led not only to a culture of fear, but also to a troubling blurring of fiction and reality. See http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=368847. |
| Victor Emeljanow and Gillian Arrighi |
Victor Emeljanow and Gillian Arrighi's article, “Entertaining children: an exploration of the business and politics of childhood,” has appeared in New Theatre Quarterly 28, no. 1 (February 2012): 41-55. Their edition of A World of Popular Entertainments containing 17 essays by prominent scholars worldwide will be published by Cambridge Scholars Press in April 2012. |
| Iris Smith Fischer |
Iris Smith Fischer's book Mabou Mines: Making Avant-Garde Theatre in the 1970s appeared in March 2011 from the University of Michigan Press. This is the first book on the pathbreaking theatre company founded by JoAnne Akalaitis, Lee Breuer, Philip Glass, Ruth Maleczech, and David Warrilow in 1970. Like much avant-garde performance of the 1970s, Mabou Mines' early pieces were seldom recorded or documented, a missing history that this book sets out to capture. A paperback edition of the book is planned for Fall 2012. |