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MILLER EVENTS

Features: Calls for Papers (ongoing and new for journals and conferences), Book proposals, upcoming Conferences and Panels that feature Miller (with archives for past Miller panels at the American literature Association conferences and past conferences organized and sponsored by the Arthur Miller Society); also other theatre scholar opportunities.
 
We would appreciate it if you could send us any current information for this page to make it as detailed as possible. Send information to webmaster Sue Abbotson. For information on the Arthur Miller Journal–including how to subscribe and content lists for previously published issues (including the earlier Arthur Miller Society Newsletter), go to the Journal pages.

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Calls For Papers:

CFP – Miller Conference 2024

The Arthur Miller Society is always looking for anyone who would like to organize Miller panels at conferences, such as ALA, SAMLA, NEMLA, CDC, American Studies, ASTR or ATHE–please contact our current President, David Palmer, with proposals/details.

In an ongoing effort to encourage Miller studies, The Arthur Miller Society voted at its annual meeting in May 2017 to reimburse conference fees for students and independent scholars who deliver papers on Miller at established academic conferences. We encourage people to join The Arthur Miller Society, but you do not need to be a society member to apply for this reimbursement.

To apply for a reimbursement, please email the following items to David Palmer, the current president of the Miller Society:

  1. A copy of the conference program showing the panel in which your paper was presented and your paper’s title.
  2. A brief abstract of your paper.
  3. A copy of your receipt from the conference organizers showing your payment of the registration fee.
  4. If you are a student, documentation of your student status.
  5. If you are an independent scholar, documentation of other work you have done that is related to the study of Arthur Miller.

The first time a student or independent scholar is approved for a reimbursement, the person also will receive a free one-year membership in the Arthur Miller Society, which includes a subscription to the two issues of The Arthur Miller Journal that the society publishes during that year. The journal is peer reviewed and is published by Penn State University Press. Its articles are included in major academic databases.


Ongoing CFP:

Arthur Miller Journal: Looking for papers on any aspect of the life and work of Arthur Miller for the Arthur Miller Journal which is published Spring (deadline end of previous Oct.) and Fall (deadline end of previous May). Go to the Journal page for more detail regarding submissions, subscriptions, contact e-mails for the various editors, and for contents of past volumes. You can make a submission to the Journal of an essay, performance review (and/or interview with director/actors etc), or book review, as well as offer material for the notes section–directly at this website. If a Miller play is being produced in your area (check the listings on our upcoming productions page)–please attend and upload your review through this link (AMJ submissions); we do print photographs of the productions, too, as long as you have permission. For all of these you will need to register as an “author” (not “reviewer”), and once you submit any manuscript or review you will need to approve what you submitted before it gets sent on to the editors, but the process is explained on the submission page. NOTE: This year’s fall issue (2024: vol.19, no.2) of the Arthur Miller Journal will be devoted to Death of a Salesman. The journal invites articles about the play as well as shorter notes to be included in an introductory section titled “Why Death of Salesman is Important.” Information about the journal and the submission process is available on the Penn State University Press website. Questions about this special issue of the journal should be emailed to Stephen Marino, the journal’s current editor, at arthurmillerjournal@gmail.com. The submission deadline for this issue is 15 April, 2024.

Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies: Special Arthur Miller Edition: Volume 11, Number 2 (2005):  ISSN:  12 18-7364  contains several new essays on Miller’s work. The Journal is meanwhile looking for further submissions: Manuscripts should conform to the latest edition of the MLA Handbook in all matters of style (parenthetical citations keyed to a works-cited list). The HJEAS Submission Guidelines, the HJEAS Style Sheet for Contributors, the HJEAS Book Review Guidelines and the HJEAS Form for Author and Reviewer Bio are available for downloading in Microsoft Word format. All submissions should be uploaded to https://ojs.lib.unideb.hu/hjeas/about/submissions. Any correspondence should be addressed to the Editors, HJEAS, University of Debrecen, H-4002 Debrecen, Pf. 400.

JCDE: Journal of Contemporary Drama in English: published by De Gruyter (Berlin/Boston). A bi-annual, peer-reviewed journal that focuses on contemporary Anglophone dramatic literature and theatre performance. It renegotiates the understanding of contemporary aesthetics of drama and theatre by treating dramatic texts of the last fifty years, and welcomes essays on the work of Arthur Miller. Essays should be no longer than 8,000 words (including notes and bibliography). ESSAY CONTRIBUTIONS should be sent to: Prof. Dr. Anette Pankratz, Englisches Seminar, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Universitätsstraße 150, 44801 Bochum, Germany. SUGGESTIONS FOR REVIEWS should be sent to: Prof. Dr. Merle Tönnies, Universität Paderborn, Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Englische Literaturwissenschaft, Warburger Str. 100, 33098 Paderborn, Germany.

The Journal of American Drama and Theatre: a fully online and peer-reviewed journal — is currently seeking submissions for upcoming issues. If you are working on an article related to theatre and/or drama of the Americas, consider submitting it to JADT. Full submission guidelines can be found here, and the most recent issue (guest-edited by ATDS) can be viewed here.

Theatre Annual, founded in 1942 by the Theatre Library Association, is published in the fall of each year in association with the American Theatre and Drama Society. For more information on Theatre Annual, see http://theatreannual.atds.org/. Submissions should follow the guidelines in The Chicago Manual of Style, 17th edition (endnotes, no Works Cited list). Authors should submit articles as Word attachments to the editor, Peter Reed, Department of English, University of Mississippi (preed@olemiss.edu). In order to assist in the anonymous peer review process, the author’s identity should not be revealed in the manuscript except on a separate title page that should also include full contact information (academic affiliation, mailing address, home, cell, and work telephone numbers, and email address). Articles should be 5,000 to 6,500 words long including notes. Illustrations are highly desirable; authors are responsible for securing rights. Please allow at least eight weeks after the deadline for a response. NOTE: deadline for 2024 has been extended to Feb. 15th, and this will be their 76th volume. Scholars wishing to write book reviews for Theatre Annual are invited to send an inquiry to the book review editor, Michael Lueger (mlueger@gmail.com). If accepted, reviewers are asked to prepare their manuscripts in conformity with the guidelines in The Chicago Manual of Style without footnotes and submit them as a Word attachment.  Reviews should be 750 to 800 words for a review of a single book, 1,000 to 1,200 words for a two-book review, and 2,500 words for a five- or six-book review essay.  Submission deadline for reviews is April 1, 2024. If publishers would like to send review copies, they should contact Michael via email to make arrangements. For more information on ATDS, see www.ATDS.org.

Theatre History Studies accepts submissions on the full range of topics in theatre history on a rolling deadline. Please submit articles for consideration as soon as they are ready for review. Please send manuscripts for the general section to: Dr. Jocelyn L. Buckner, Editor, Theatre History Studies. More details can be found on the Project MUSE website.

New England Theatre Journal (a publication of the New England Theatre Conference) invites submissions each year. A refereed publication, New England Theatre Journal is concerned with advancing the study and practice of theatre and drama by printing articles of the highest quality on a broad range of subjects, including traditional scholarship, performance theory, pedagogy, and articles on theatre performance, design and technology. New England Theatre Journal is indexed in the International Index of the Performing Arts and the MLA Bibliography. It can also be found via EBESCO and other sites. The deadline for submissions for the next issue is January 30, 2023 (and it is around then each year). You are, however, encouraged to submit contributions at the earliest possible date so that full consideration may be given to them. Inquiries and communications regarding the submission of articles are welcome.  MANUSCRIPTS: All contributions should conform to the following guidelines:

  1. Papers should be submitted, between 15-30 pages in length. Author’s name should not appear on manuscript pages.  Please send this as an email attachment to the address listed below. Contact the Editor if you have any questions.
  2. The Chicago Manual of Style, 17th edition should be followed strictly.
  3. Include a cover sheet with the title of the article, your name, your affiliation, title, mailing address, telephone numbers and email address, a 50-75 word abstract, and a brief biographical paragraph.
  4. Notes, references, charts, or figures should appear at the end of the article on separate pages.

NB: Articles pending disposition by NETJ should not be submitted to another publication unless released by the Editor of NETJ. Manuscripts are juried anonymously in order to assure the highest possible publication standards. If you have any questions please feel free to contact the editor directly: Stuart J. Hecht, Email: hecht@bc.edu.

Theatre and Performance Notes and Counternotes is the first and only journal in the broadly-conceived field of theatre studies to publish short-to-medium length research articles on any subject, as well as publish discussion and response articles. Placing a premium on clarity, readability, and rigor of thought, TPNC seeks articles that despite their brevity are significant and have wide appeal and applicability in the field. TPNC also welcomes interdisciplinary articles that reach across and/or beyond the field(s) of drama, theatre, and performance studies. Submit all manuscripts to Penn State’s Editorial Manager. This online system will guide you through the steps to upload your article to the editorial office. Except in response or discussion articles in which the identity of the author is appropriate and/or required, in order to undergo the journal’s double-blind peer-review process, all articles should (1) be anonymized, (2) be between 1,500-4,000 words, and (3) conform to the latest edition of The Chicago Manual of Style. Original research articles can range from focused notes to medium-length articles. Articles can be on any subject(s) in the broadly-defined field of theatre studies, but the scope, ambition, and thesis should be appropriate to the length of the submitted article. Discussion articles can offer proposed solutions and/or problematize specific ideas related to, or emerging from, conversations or debates within the field. Discussions can also serve as a place to crystalize conversations or debates in the field, or to bring seemingly-disparate ideas into a more coherent conversation. Response articles are, most often, directed at either the theses of a specific scholar(s) and/or a specific conversation or debate within the field. Often, responses engage directly with the strengths and weaknesses of particular theses or broader ideas in the field in order to either strengthen, modify, or challenge these theses/ideas. The aim of these responses is not to create debates or arguments (and, certainly, never arguments or attacks of a personal nature) but to move the field to a clearer and more accurate understanding of the subject at hand. These response articles can also provide a space to revisit and/or modify one’s own previously-published ideas. If you would like to discuss the possibility of proposing and/or curating a “Symposium” consisting of 3-4 related discussion and/or response articles, please send an email to the Editor of Theatre and Performance Notes and Counternotes, Prof. Michael Y. Bennett at bennettm@uww.edu.

Studies in Theatre History and Culture series at the University of Iowa Press sent out a request for manuscripts. This series publishes scholarship on the historical contexts of theatre and cultural performance, and features a full spectrum of historiographical methods and perspectives. Topics have encompassed a wide range of fields, including Ancient Greek theatre, the American Chautauqua, Southeast Asian performance, Yiddish theatre, representations of race, gender, and ethnicity onstage, Shakespeare in performance, marionettes, ritual theories of performance, theatricality and antitheatricality. They are particularly interested in works that explore histories of race, gender, sexuality, class, and ethnicity in performance, and  encourage submissions that bring a creative approach to these fields. So why not something related to Arthur Miller? Recent/forthcoming publications include: Collusions of Fact and Fiction: Performing Slavery in the Works of Suzan-Lori Parks and Kara Walker; Cracking Up: Black Feminist Comedy in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Century United States; Bloody Tyrants and Little Pickles: Stage Roles of Anglo-American Girls in the Nineteenth Century; The Song Is You: Musical Theatre and the Politics of Bursting into Song and Dance; and Staging Postcommunism: Alternative Theatre in Eastern and Central Europe after 1989. If you would like to discuss a book proposal for the series, please contact heather.nathans@tufts.edu and cc. the Associate Editor for the series, Dr. Dan Ciba at danielciba01@gmail.com.  If you are interested in learning more about the Iowa series, please visit their website: https://www.uipress.uiowa.edu/search/browse-series/browse-STHC.htm


 Calls for Papers

CFP – Miller Conference 2024

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Below are photographs of Mr. Miller from the 9th International Arthur Miller Conference, taken by Dr. Jeffrey Mason, University of Oregon.


Conferences and Panels that will be featuring presentations on Miller:

TBA

Plans are afoot for another conference organized by the Arthur Miller Society in the near future:
keeping checking back for information.

On Another Note:

While no Miller sessions have been organized for this year you might consider attending either: Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) (https://www.athe.org/page/19conf_home) or the American Society for Theatre Research conference (https://www.astr.org/default.aspx), and consider whether you might be able to organize a Miller session for either one for any future year.

(Link to AMS conference archive)

(Link to ALA archive)

Members, especially, please make every effort possible to attend any conference panels with papers on Miller and support the continuation of Arthur Miller scholarship. Here is a link to a recent virtual panel on Miller and New Perspectives that was presented at ALA in 2021.

William Inge Theater millertree plaque
Outside the William Inge Theatre they have planted a tree for each past Honoree of the William Inge Festival Achievement Award who has passed on. The tree they planted in Miller’s memory right outside the William Inge Theatre in
Independence, Kansas.
Here is the plaque at the base of the tree; planted in 1995, the year Miller was so honored.