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Text and Performance Quarterly (TPQ) is a peer-reviewed publication of the National Communication Association. TPQ publishes original scholarship that explores and advances the study of performance as a social, critical, communicative practice; as a theoretical lens; as a critical method; as a technology of representation and expression; and as a hermeneutic. Scholarship in TPQ addresses performance and the performative from a wide range of perspectives and methodologies, and it investigates sites of performance from the classical stage to popular culture to the practices of everyday life.
In addition to standard monographs, TPQ also publishes papers that examine and analyze performance in other scholarly modes, including experimental critical essays, photo essays, interviews, and performance texts/scripts.
TPQ also features a “Performance Space” section that documents performances and situates and critiques them in relation to performance studies theory and praxis.
For more details about how to submit your research to TPQ , please review our Instructions for Authors.
Unless specifically indicated otherwise, articles in this journal have undergone rigorous peer review, including screening by the editor and review by at least two anonymous referees.
Authors can choose to publish gold open access in this journal.
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