About this journal

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.

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Editor:
Jake Simmons - Missouri State University, USA

Editor-Elect:
Kimberlee Perez, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA

Performance Space Editors:
Travis Brisini - Louisiana State University, USA
Jade Huell – California State University , Northridge, USA

Editorial Board:
Tony Adams - Bradley University, USA
Angela J. Aguayo - Southern Illinois University, USA
Bryant K. Alexander - Loyloa Marymount University, USA
Jay Allison- University of North Texas, USA
John D. Anderson- Emerson College, USA
Luis Andrade - Santa Monica College, USA
Tanya Augsburg - San Francisco State University, USA
Jay Baglia - DePaul University, USA
Myron M. Beasley - Bates College, USA
Keith Berry - University of South Florida, USA
Jnan Blau - Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, USA
Michael Bowman - Louisiana State University, USA
Ruth Laurion Bowman - Louisiana State University, USA
Robin Boylorn - University of Alabama, USA
Bernadette Calafell - University of Denver, USA
Lisa B. Y. Calvente - University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA
Marla Carlson - University of Georgia, Athens, USA
M. Heather Carver - University of Missouri, USA
Felipe Cervera - Lasalle College of the Arts, Singapore
Joshua Takano Chambers-Letson - Northwestern University, USA
Karma Chávez - University of Texas, Austin, USA
Devika Chawla - Ohio University, USA
Marcy Rose Chvasta - California State University, Stanislaus, USA
Daniel B. Coleman Chávez - University of North Carolina, USA
Gordon Coonfield - Villanova University, USA
Renée Alexander Craft - University of North Carolina, USA
Scott Dillard - Georgia College and State University, USA
Jason Del Gandio - Temple University, USA
Serap Erincin - Louisiana State University, USA
Laila Farah - DePaul University, USA
Mindy Fenske - University of South Carolina, USA
Jim Ferris - University of Toledo, USA
Elizabeth C. Fine - Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA
Marcela Fuentes - Northwestern University, USA
Sarah Amira De La Garza - Arizona State University, USA
John S. Gentile - Kennesaw State University, USA
Joanne Gilbert - Alma College, USA
Craig Gingrich-Philbrook – Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, USA
Dustin Bradley Goltz - DePaul University, USA
Lyndsay Michalik Gratch - Syracuse University, USA
Jonny Gray - Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, USA
Joshua Gunn - University of Texas, Austin, USA
Timothy Gura - Brooklyn College, CUNY, USA
Judith Hamera - Princeton University, USA
Anne Harris - RMIT University, Australia
Bruce Henderson - Ithaca College, USA
Lore/tta LeMaster - Arizona State University, USA
Aubrey Huber - University of South Florida, USA
Jade Huell - California State University, Northridge, USA
Kate Hunter - Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia
Sarah K. Jackson – Catawba College, USA
E. Patrick Johnson - Northwestern University, USA
Javon L. Johnson - San Francisco State University, USA
Julia Johnson - University of Wisconsin, La Crosse, USA
Omi Osun Joni L. Jones - University of Texas, USA
Stacy Holman Jones - Monash University, Australia
Jodi Kanter - George Washington University, USA
Amy Kilgard - San Francisco State University, USA
Frank J. Korom - Boston University, USA
Petra Kuppers - University of Michigan, USA
Eero Laine - SUNY Buffalo, USA
Kristin M. Langellier - University of Maine, USA
Michael LeVan - University of South Florida, USA
Kurt Lindemann - San Diego State University, USA
Lesa Lockford - Bowling Green State University, USA
Christie A. Logan - California State University, Northridge, USA
D. Soyini Madison - Northwestern University, USA
Meggie Mapes, Ph.D. - University of Kansas, USA
Jeffrey Q. McCune, Jr. - Washington University in St. Louis, USA
Sara McKinnon - University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
Chris McRae - University of South Florida, USA
Shauna M. McDonald - Villanova University, USA
Lisa Merrill - Hofstra University, USA
Jeanine Minge - California State University, Northridge, USA
Karen Mitchell - University of Northern Iowa, USA
Claudio Moreira - University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA
Shane T. Moreman - California State University, Fresno, USA
Charles Morris, III - Syracuse University, USA
Thomas K. Nakayama - Northeastern University, USA
Donna M. Nudd - Florida State University, USA
Melanie Kitchens O’Meara - Augusta University, USA
Chuyun Oh - San Diego State University, USA
Charles Parrott - Kennesaw State University, USA
Ronald J. Pelias - Southern Illinois University, USA
Tony Perucci - University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA
Eric E. Peterson - University of Maine, USA
Elsye Lamm Pineau - Southern Illinois University, USA
Della Pollock - University of North Carolina, USA
Benjamin D. Powell - Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY, USA
Heidi M. Rose - Villanova University, USA
Julie-Ann Scott - University of North Carolina, Wilmington, USA
Tracy Stephenson Shaffer - Louisiana State University, USA
Ronald E. Shields - Sam Houston State University, USA
Deanna Shoemaker - Monmouth University, USA
Matthew Spangler - San José State University, USA
Benjamin Spatz - University of Huddersfield, UK
Andrew R. Smith - Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, USA
Tami Spry - St. Cloud State University, USA
Carol Simpson Stern - Northwestern University, USA
Erin Striff - University of Delaware, USA
Nathan P. Stucky - Southern Illinois University, USA
Patricia A. Suchy - Louisiana State University, USA
Jill Taft-Kaufman - Central Michigan University, USA
Jacqueline Taylor - The College of New Jersey, USA
David P. Terry - Louisiana State University, USA
Justin Trudeau - University of North Texas, USA
Jennifer Tuder - St. Cloud State University, USA
Jennifer Tyburczy - University of Californa- Santa Barbara, USA
Rebecca A. Walker - Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, USA
Elizabeth Whitney - Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY, USA
Naida Zukic - Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY, USA
Former editors of Text and Performance Quarterly

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