Congratulations to our members for winning awards from the Association for Theatre in Higher Education, and let us note that they also won the matching ATDS awards! Outstanding Books Ryan Donovan, Broadway Bodies: A Critical History of Conformity, Oxford University Press, 2023 Outstanding Books: Distinction for Scholarly Achievement Esther Kim Lee, Made-Up Asians: Yellowface During the Exclusion […]
States/Stages of Emergency: An ATDS Pre-Conference Tuesday, July 30, 2024 over Zoom Proposals to participate as a panelist due: June 15, 2024 This is an emergency. From neoliberal capitalism and censorship of our stages and our syllabi to physical assaults on our students and legislated attacks on anti-racist programming and queer, trans, and nonbinary people, […]
ATDS First Book Bootcamp 2024 Can you write your first book? Yes, you can!The annual First Book Bootcamp pairs contingent and tenure-stream faculty with experienced faculty mentors to develop book proposals. Mentoring faculty will read participants’ materials in advance and meet during the Bootcamp in one-on-one sessions for targeted feedback. In addition to these one-on-one mentoring […]
ATDS held two sponsored panels at this year’s annual conference for the Modern Language Association in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The first panel was “Theater in or of Joy and Sorrow: Representation of Marginalized Communities in the Americans.” This panel, chaired by Bess Rowen, featured work by Christina Baker (Temple University) about a performance that revolves around […]