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The Arthur Miller Theater at the University of Michigan

Calls For Papers:

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, Jane Dominik, 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 Jane Dominik, 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.  Information about the journal and the submission process is available on the Penn State University Press website. Any other questions about the journal should be emailed to Stephen Marino, the journal’s current editor: arthurmillerjournal@gmail.com.

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, 17^th 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, 17^th 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

52nd Annual Louisville Conference on Literature & Culture

FEB 17-18 – Virtual and FEB 20-22 – In-Person

Featuring Keynote Speakers

RACHEL KUSHNER, BEN LERNER, JAHAN RAMAZANI, and GEORGIE MEDINA MARCANO!

The Louisville Conference on Literature & Culture welcomes critical papers and full panel discussions about literature from the 20th and 21st centuries and its connections to other art forms and academic fields. The conference also welcomes creative submissions, such as literary compositions, videos, or hybrid genres. Additionally, critical-creative submissions exploring poetics, crafts, or writing practices are welcomed.

Confirmed LCLC52 events include The Hero Project of the Century: Tyrone Williams As iZ (Aldon Nielsen, organizer) and The Function of Music in Poetry (Adeena Karasick and Mark Scroggins, organizers). And so much more to come!

VENDORS and EXHIBITORS are welcome. Contact Emily Ravenscraft, Conference Coordinator at lclc@louisville.edu to learn how you can be a part of LCLC52.

Submissions are accepted in English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Hebrew, and Italian. Panels involving global literature and culture in other languages are encouraged. We also encourage proposals that bring together people from different universities or organizations, with varying levels of experience in academia, and from various fields of study. Recent society participants include the African American Literature & Culture Society, Charles Olson Society, E.E. Cummings Society, International Harold Pinter Society, International Lawrence Durrell Society, International Virginia Woolf Society, Iris Murdoch Society, T.S. Eliot Society, among others.

Conference registrants may participate in up to two of the following activities: (1) a critical, critical-creative, or group/society panel; (2) a creative session; (3) or as the leader of a seminar. Additionally, registrants may also chair one or more panels, as well as participate in seminars. Submissions are limited to one entry per category.

Deadline for submissions is 11:59 P.M. EST on September 15, 2024.

SUBMISSION PROCESS

Email submissions to lclc@louisville.edu

Please use the Subject line exactly: LCLC52 Submission, [Type of submission]

Example: LCLC52 Submission, Roundtable Session

Submission Components:

Individual Critical / Critical-Creative Submissions

Please send as 2 separate attachments

1) Cover sheet: Name as it is to appear in program with any institutional affiliation, Paper Title, and a biographical statement (250 words).

2) Abstract: be sure to omit all references to the author and the author’s name (250-300 words).

Individual Creative Submissions

Please send as 2 separate attachments

1) Cover Sheet: Name as it is to appear in program with any institutional affiliation, Title of Work Submitted, and a biographical statement (250 words).

2) Writing Sample: suitable for a 15-20 minute presentation.

Full Panels, Roundtables and Societies Sessions (single panels or streams) Submissions:

Sessions are to be designed for a 90-minute time slot. The organizer should submit the following documents:

Please send as 2 separate attachments

1) Cover Sheet: Names and Institutional Affiliations, Titles of Work Submitted, biographical statements.

2) Dependent on the subject of the submission please submit either:

a) Abstract: be sure to omit all references to the author and the author’s name (250-300 words).

b) Writing Sample: suitable for a 15-20 minute presentation

SEMINARS. These 120 minutes sessions typically feature informal conversation moderated by the seminar leader(s) on the topic and or activity. If you wish to propose a seminar for LCLC52, contact LCLC Coordinator Emily Ravenscraft and we will evaluate it in advance of our second CFP which will be circulated in August 2024. See below for the current line-up of for this the current LCLC52 seminars. Each seminar has it’s own process for submission, so please read the descriptions carefully.

SEMINAR I  Translation Chapbook Workshop and Reading  Organized by Dr. Mark Mattes & Dr. Clare Sullivan

Participants will take part in a bookbinding workshop led by Dr. Mattes of Louisville-based Hot Brown Press and create chapbooks of their translations. All tools and materials will be provided. Then, in a subsequent panel, chapbook contributors will share their work and participate in a group discussion led by LCLC committee member Dr. Clare Sullivan.

To be considered, please submit 1) Cover sheet and 2) Sample of original, unpublished translations into English from any language. Limit your selection to 150 words – excerpts are fine. Include the source text with your submission and a brief citation.

SEMINAR II  Poetry, Games, and Magic  Organized by Dr. Brandon Harwood & Dr. Robert Eric Shoemaker

This seminar explores the interplay between poetry, magic, and games. What similarities, practical and theoretical, may be drawn from these fields? How can the poetics of play, or the magic circle of the video game, inform our understanding and practice of each? What do today’s multimedia games and poetries say about or to ancient rituals, sociocultural stratification, or morality and purity rules? What openings do we see in language and culture to bend rules in order to break open systems?

To be considered, please submit 1) Cover sheet and 2) Abstract touching two of these fields: game studies, poetry/poetics, and the magical/occult.

SEMINAR III  Pandemic Studies  Organized by Martha Greenwald

Participants will pursue the imaginative structures, disputed narratives, cross-pollinating conspiracies, and contested discourses used to make sense of COVID-19 as well as other past, contemporaneous, or future pandemics. As we accept that life now is increasingly lived with the COVID-19 virus as a normalized and never-ending event, Narrative frameworks and genres of the pandemic experience have shifted and need now additional study. We seek surprising, ambitious, theoretically-rich, and provocative response.

To be considered, please submit 1) Cover sheet and 2) Abstract. Contributions that introduce fiction or generic hybridity are welcome.

PRICING:   Deadline for early bird pricing is January 31, 2025. Ticket

Ticket Type	Price Before Deadline	Price After Deadline
Virtual Presenter	$200	$230
Presenter: Tenured, Tenure-Track	$165	$195
Presenter: Retired, Adjunct, or non-Tenure-Track	$125	$140
Graduate Student Registration	$100	$115
Chair (non-presenter)	$60	$70
Guest	$25 (daily)	$25 (daily)

 

 

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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:

Miller Conference 2024

Salesman at 75

A one-day Arthur Miller Society Conference on 19 October 2024 in Roxbury, CT at the Minor Memorial Library. All are welcome and there will be no charge for attendance. Continental breakfast, a light lunch and afternoon reception will be served.
Program information is forthcoming–but there will be some academic papers, both live at the venue and others streamed in from all over the world, a key note lecture with Q&A that speculates on Miller’s greatness as a playwright and Death of a Salesman being the best of his plays, also teaching and learning panels and we’ll hear from local residents who remember their famous neighbor. Keep checking back and keep the date free.

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) or the American Society for Theatre Research conference (https://www.astr.org), 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.

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.