NEW SERIES: CALL FOR PROPOSALS

Queer Performance: International Practices, Histories and Approaches

Queer Performance explores the myriad of practices, concepts and bodies platformed and cultivated by queer stages and cultures. It examines what queer performance is and what it has been; it re-imagines what queer performance can do and critically engages with what its futures might hold. Considering work on a diverse set of stages – from nightclubs to national platforms, art venues to the street – the series actively seeks to amplify voices that have historically had little, if any, opportunity to take space before.

While we welcome scholarly projects that explicitly explore queerness, we are equally open to projects on transness, nonbinariness and critiques of queer anti-normativity. Likewise, we recognise that queer is not a historical or cultural constant. Queerness feels differently across national, regional, and linguistic boundaries. We invite proposals that address what queerness embraces in its multiple localities as well as what it erases at a conceptual, cultural and artistic level.

The series features single-authored, co-authored, and edited scholarly volumes that may connect with, but are not limited to, the following themes and areas: