Aims and Scope
Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory publishes scholarly essays from interdisciplinary feminist perspectives. For us, “women” and “performance” denote not simply what we study but how we study it—that is, not preconceived objects of analysis, but rather an open assembly of political, ethical, and aesthetic orientations, feminism chief among them. We encourage dialogues among various fields of performance scholarship, including theater and performance studies, dance studies, music history and criticism, ethnography, new and digital media, cinema studies, and cultural studies; as well as queer, critical race, and post- and decolonial theory. Working with/in this disciplinary hybridity, we explore critiques of gender, race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, dis/ability, technology, nation, and capitalism.
The journal is a peer-reviewed, triannual publication with guest-edited special issues. We encourage general submissions that foreground questions of gender and performance, as well as proposals for special issues that address specific topics within feminism and performance studies. Included in our journal is a section titled “&,” which features performative writing, poetry, artist’s statements, manifestos, feminist and queer takes on current events, and other modes of intellectual production and critical engagement that perform feminist theory in alternative forms. The journal also includes reviews of recent performances and scholarly books.
About Us
Women & Performance was founded in 1983 by graduate students in the Department of Performance Studies at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. After self-publishing for 23 years, Women & Performance was acquired by Routledge/Taylor & Francis. Since its inception the journal has operated as a feminist collective. For us, being a feminist collective entails a fair and ethical distribution of labor, a nonhierarchical and collaborative editorial structure, and a review process that hopes to diverge from what is extractive and transactional in traditional academic publishing.
Managing Editor: Buffy, Artist/Writer
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Book Reviews Editor: Annie Sansonetti, New York University
Rosed Serrano, University of Pennsylvania
Performance Reviews Editor: Alhena Katsoff, New York University
Sonya Merutka, Princeton University
Ampersand Editors: Sarah Guilbault, Artist/Writer
Eva Margarita, University of Texas at Austin
sadé powell, Poet/Organizer
troizel xx, Haverford College
Editorial Collective:
Buffy, Artist
E. Barnick, New York University
Barbara Browning, New York University
Lauren Bakst, University of Pennsylvania
Yasmeen Chism, New York University
Jack Davis, Yale University
Joanna Evans, New York University
Sarah Guilbault, Artist/Writer
Kristen Holfeuer, New York University
Alhena Katsof, New York University
Chip Kimura, New York University
Luisa Marinho, New York University
Eva Margarita, University of Texas at Austin
Sonya Merutka, Princeton University
sadé powell, Poet/Organizer
Sarah Richter, New York University
Isabelle Hui Saldaña, Artist
Annie Sansonetti, New York University
Rosed Serrano, University of Pennsylvania
Gasira Timir, University of Chicago
Blanca Ulloa, New York University
Tara Aisha Willis, New York University / Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
troizel xx, New York University
Advisory Board: Patrick Anderson, University of California, San Diego
Alicia Arrizón, University of California, Riverside
Sara Jane Bailes, University of Sussex
Kate Bornstein, Performance Artist and Author
Rizvana Bradley, Yale University
Lydia Brawner, Performa
Jennifer Brody, Stanford University
Sarah Jane Cervenak, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Catherine Ceniza Choy, University of California, Berkeley
Joshua Chambers-Letson, Northwestern University
Rey Chow, Duke University
Kandice Chuh, CUNY Graduate Center
Sophia Cleary, Artist
Samara Davis, New York University
Jennifer Doyle, University of California, Riverside
Amalle Dublon, Duke University
Karen Finley, New York University
Olivia Michiko Gagnon, University of British Columbia
Saidiya V. Hartman, Columbia University
John L. Jackson, University of Pennsylvania
Janet Jakobsen, Barnard College
Kara Jesella, New York University
Liz Kinnamon, University of Arizona
Jill Lane, New York University
Summer Kim Lee, University of California, Los Angeles
Joshua Lubin-Levy, New York University
Debra Levine, New York University, Abu Dhabi
Trista E. Mallory, Arts Research Cooperative
James McMaster, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Neal Medlyn, Artist
Ricardo Montez, The New School for Public Engagement
Fred Moten, New York University
José Esteban Muñoz, in perpetuity
Amber Jamilla Musser, Washington University in St. Louis
Sianne Ngai, Stanford University
Tavia Nyong’o, Yale University
Cynthia Oliver, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Peggy Phelan, Stanford University
Alex Pittman, Barnard College
Alan Ruiz, Artist
Juana María Rodríguez, University of California, Berkeley
Rebecca Schneider, Brown University
Aliza Shvarts, New York University
Elizabeth Stinson, New York University
Alina Troyano, Performance Artist
Jeanne Vaccaro, Indiana University
Alexandra T. Vazquez, New York University
Updated 31-03-2023
Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory is a hybrid open access journal that is part of our Open Select publishing program, giving you the option to publish open access. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership, and impact of your research.
If you choose to publish open access in this journal you may be asked to pay an Article Publishing Charge (APC). You may be able to publish your article at no cost to yourself or with a reduced APC if your institution or research funder has an open access agreement or membership with Taylor & Francis.
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