Thursday, May 17, 2012
ASTR Online Search for Associate Editors
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1.) Associate Editors for Features assist with the processes of soliciting, vetting, and editing articles and news content. Primary responsibilities will include working with the Editor to establish issue themes, drafting CFPs, liasoning with authors, and assisting the Editor with other aspects of content management. Work on feature articles will involve collaborating with authors on shaping content as well as copyediting.

 

ASTR Online features news articles concerning topics of interest to the membership, updates from the Society’s leadership, member news (awards, publications, etc.) and a forum to share CFPs for conferences and publications.

The ideal candidates will possess excellent organizational skills, a keen eye for copyediting, the ability to complete work under deadlines, and interest in soliciting and reviewing articles pertinent to theatre and performance studies research.

The position does not require website editing or technical skills, though they may be an asset.

2.) The Associate Editor for Media oversees all non-textual elements of ASTR Online. In particular, she or he will create or locate images to illustrate all feature articles and will develop and maintain featured videos. Content not solicited from ASTR member submissions will need to be created by the editor for each issue.

ASTR Online seeks to include videos highlighting topics of interest to the membership, including historiographic inquiries, pedagogical projects, or interviews with theatre and performance scholars and artists.

The ideal candidate will possess creativity, excellent organizational skills, experience with photo and video editing techniques and software, interest in soliciting and developing video content, and the ability to deliver all products within deadlines.

This position does require technical skills and website editing skills are also an asset.

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Individuals interested in these positions should e-mail Charlotte McIvor, ASTR Online editor, at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it with a brief letter of interest and a condensed CV highlighting publications, editorial experience, and service to the profession, by 5pm PST on February 24, 2012.

 

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.

 

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