Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance

Series Editors: Jill Dolan, Princeton University and David Román, University of Southern California

Triangulations focuses on theater, drama, and performance in all its interdisciplinary and historical variety, and in all its professional and community manifestations. The series is committed to a triangulated notion of lesbian/gay/queer, as well as to tracing the lines between drama/theater/performance. We define the term "performance" generously, ranging from dramatic literature staged in theater buildings to everyday rituals that constitute performance (such as commitment ceremonies or memorial services) to the performative dimensions of sex, sexuality, gender, race, and other identity categories. At the same time, we remain committed to scholarship about work that is specifically theatrical in reception and intent, from work at various lesbian and gay theaters and performance spaces, to activist groups around the country, who use theatrical spectacle to political effect.

Triangulations will embrace traditional historical scholarship as well as high theoretical work, emphasizing grounded materialist discourse. We are open to a diversity of methods, but encourage scholarship that addresses its argument to both academic and general audiences. We welcome submissions in a variety of areas, including but not limited to work on:

• practice and production, exploring which discursive, economic, and formal channels facilitate the production of what kinds of gay and lesbian theater work
• the relationship of gay and lesbian performance to historical modes of production
• performance spaces in which lesbian/gay/queer theater has flourished
• work that examines the impact of AIDS on gay and lesbian and queer theater
• reception studies in gay and lesbian performance, whether through ethnography or other theoretical approaches
• projects that tease out the implications of "community" in gay and lesbian theater and performance production and its reception.

We seek book projects that will address both critics and practitioners, and help to create important conversations around the performance work and critical ideas that they produce. Triangulations encourages projects that demonstrate the creative and intellectual collaborations possible among gay/lesbian/queer critics, activists, Playwrights, performers, and theorists. It also encourages cross-gender, cross-race, cross-ethnicity, inter-identity conversations. Our intent is to be inclusive across disciplines, across practices, and across communities, as well as reaching out within other aspects of the theater studies discipline.

Finally, our series has an activist component, in its content, its politics, and its pragmatics. We encourage clear theoretical writing, which will appeal not only to academic readers, but to practitioners and audiences who need this material to engage with their lives, their ideas, and their ideals.

For more information or to submit a book proposal please contact:

David Román
Department of English
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0354
davidr@mizar.usc.edu

Jill Dolan
Department of English
Lewis Center for the Arts Program in Theater and Dance
22 McCosh Hall
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544
jsdolan@princeton.edu

LeAnn Fields
University of Michigan Press
839 Greene Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48104-3209
lfields@umich.edu

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