A note from the series editors

We, Kim Solga and Mallarika Sinha Roy, are delighted to announce that we are the new co-editors of the Cambridge Elements series, Women Theatre Makers.

We are inviting new proposals for this series, which has already established itself as diverse and innovative, with published volumes spanning multiple continents and featuring a strong balance of South Asian, South East Asian, European, British, and North American performance. Our goal as editors is to continue the series’ existing focus on select individual artists while encouraging more volumes that group multiple theatre makers together across widely taught shared interests and topics. Elements volumes are designed to appeal to students as well as to new and established scholars, and we especially encourage proposals that emerge from the question, ‘whose remarkable work am I teaching that could use a brief, accessible volume dedicated to them?’ and ‘what overarching themes and questions are my students persistently grappling with, and where would they benefit from a pithy, lively guide to navigate them?'

Call for proposals

Restoring women theatre makers to the history of theatre is an important task, but restoring the practice of shaping theatre history to women makers and scholars is just as important. Every act of recovery or restoration is necessarily incomplete; could the contingent, fragmented and heterogeneous nature of writing women theatre makers into theatre history create productive tensions that might allow us to rethink the making of theatre history itself?

For our next tranche of volumes in Women Theatre Makers, we invite both proposals in line with our existing series mandate – by individual authors or otherwise – as well as the following:

• Collaborative proposals that allow scholars aligned by shared aesthetic or political interests to work together on an artist or group of artists;
• Collaborative proposals that pair artists and scholars in thinking through key issues, practices, themes, or body/bodies of work important to them;
• Collaborative proposals that pair a junior scholar with a senior researcher to investigate a shared interest in women’s performance practices across geography and/or time;
• Collaborative proposals that pair scholars across geographical, disciplinary, or cultural difference to investigate a shared interest;
• Proposals that arise from the question, “what Women Theatre Makers volume do I, and scholars who share my interests, need in our classrooms right now?”;
• Proposals modeled on artists’ volumes, in which a woman-identified theatre artist of major influence reflects on her practice in conversation with one or more scholars. Such volumes may include an introductory essay, interviews / conversations / reflections from the artist, and a digital gallery with photos and videos cleared for use by the artist.

If you have a project that fits with any of the above suggestions, or that looks different from the above but jives with its ethos, please be in touch with us!

We are happy to receive proposals that deploy interdisciplinary methodologies, rely on fieldwork-based research, and reflect on feminist ethics of performance and representation.

To submit a proposal for an Element in this series, please contact to the Series Editors: Professor Kim Solga (ksolga@uwo.ca) and Mallarika Sinha Roy (msroy@jnu.ac.in).