About the Journal

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.

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 features reviews of recent performances and scholarly books.

 

Editors:

Managing Editors:
Buffy — Artist / Writer
Annie Sansonetti — New York University

Book Reviews Editor:
Rosed Serrano — University of Pennsylvania

Performance Reviews Editor:
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

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 — University of California, Berkeley
    Lydia Brawner — Museum of Arts and Design
    Jennifer Brody — Stanford University
    Barbara Browning — New York 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 — The New School
    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
    Lazz Kinnamon — University of Arizona
    Jill Lane — New York University
    Summer Kim Lee — University of California, Los Angeles
    Joshua Lubin-Levy — Wesleyan University
    Debra Levine  — Harvard University
    James McMaster — George Washington University
    Trista E. Mallory — Arts Research Cooperative
    Neal Medlyn — Artist
    Ricardo Montez — The New School
    Fred Moten — New York University
    José Esteban Muñoz , in perpetuity
    Amber Jamilla Musser — CUNY Graduate Center
    Sianne Ngai — University of Chicago
    Tavia Nyong’o — Yale University
    Cynthia Oliver — University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
    Peggy Phelan — Stanford University
    Alex Pittman — Barnard College
    Sarah Richter — Brown University
    Juana María Rodríguez — University of California, Berkeley
    Alan Ruiz — Artist
    Rebecca Schneider — Brown University
    Aliza Shvarts — Parsons School of Design
    Elizabeth Stinson — New York University
    Alina Troyano — Performance Artist
    Jeanne Vaccaro — University of Kansas
    Tara Aisha Willis — Getty Research Institute 

Editorial Collective:


Buffy — Artist / Writer
E. Barnick — New York University 
Joanna Evans — New York University 
Kristen Holfeuer — New York University 
Alhena Katsof — New York University 
Isabelle Hui Saldaña — New York University 
Annie Sansonetti — New York University 
Blanca Ulloa — New York University 
troizel xx — Haverford College 
Luisa Marinho — New York University 
Yasmeen Chism — New York University 
Sonya Merutka — Princeton University 
Chip Kimura — New York University 
Rosed Serrano — University of Pennsylvania
Sarah Guilbault — Artist / Writer
Lauren Bakst — University of Pennsylvania
Eva Margarita — University of Texas at Austin
sadé powell — Poet / Organizer
Jack Davis — Yale University
Gasira Timir — University of Chicago
R Morris Levine — Duke University