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Call for Submissions: “The Routledge Studies in Edward Albee and American Theatre” Invites Book Proposals and/or Articles

January 7, 2024 at 2:37 pm - calendarMan

The Edward Albee Society is proud to announce the launch of The Routledge Studies in Edward Albee and American Theatre and sends out this call for proposals for new projects.

The new book series aims to examine mid-to-late 20th Century American theatre; its most influential and important playwright, Edward Albee; and his contemporaries.

This series is equally dedicated to both dramatic literature and theatrical performance, thinking about the American theatre in its totality. This series wants to examine the milieu of American theatre during the course of Albee’s six-decade-long career. Additionally, Edward Albee was a great champion of supporting other playwrights; therefore, in keeping with the mission of the Edward Albee Society, this series is especially interested in books about playwrights that were influenced by Albee.

In addition to monographs and edited collections that fall under the above purview, there will also be a sub-series of edited books that looks at a specific decade of American theatre through the lens of Albee and his milieu (e.g., Edward Albee and the American Theatre in the 1960s or Edward Albee and the American Theatre in the 1990s, etc.).

The following are examples of texts that could be included in the Edward Albee series:

A volume that highlights disability and performance in modern and contemporary American theatre.
An edited anthology of Edward Albee and the American Theatre of the 1950s
A monograph exploring Adrienne Kennedy’s work and the Black Arts Movement.

We welcome proposals that expand our perspectives and that of the field and look forward to reading your submissions. Please do check out the book series page on the official Routledge website.

We encourage your feedback and thoughts on the series. For more information or to send your proposal, please contact Michael Y. Bennett (Series editor) with inquiries bennettm@uww.edu or Laura Hussey at Routledge: laura.hussey@informa.com.

Series Editors: Michael Y. Bennett (University of Wisconsin-Whitewater); Laura Hussey (Routledge)

Advisory Board: Linda Ben-Zvi (Tel Aviv University), Natka Bianchini (Loyola University Maryland), Stephen Bottoms (University of Manchester), John M. Clum (Duke University), David A. Crespy (University of Missouri), Norma Jenckes (University of Cincinnati), Lincoln Konkle (The College of New Jersey), Brenda Murphy (University of Connecticut), Matthew Roudané (Georgia State University), and Rakesh H. Solomon (Indiana University)

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Volume 5 of “New Perspectives in Edward Albee Studies” Published

July 6, 2023 at 10:53 am - calendarMan

New Perspectives in Edward Albee Studies Cover

The cover for Albee Abroad
(Photo by Brill)

Brill has published the fifth and final volume of “New Perspectives in Edward Albee Studies,” Albee Abroad edited by Esther Santana! Visit the Brill website for complete details.

The final volume of the New Perspectives in Edward Albee Studies series expands the analyses of Edward Albee’s theatre beyond Anglophone countries. Ranging from academic essays, performance reviews, and interviews, the selected contributions examine different socio-political contexts, cultural dynamics, linguistic communities, and aesthetic traditions, from the 1960s to our contemporary days. Albee Abroad gladly brings together varied voices from Czech Republic, People’s Republic of China, Brazil, Iran, Germany, Spain, and Greece, thus enriching Albee scholarship with more plural tones.

The table of contents includes:

Introduction
Albee around the World
Author: Michael Y. Bennett

Chapter 1 “A Constant Struggle for Freedom: Edward Albee in Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic”
Author: Tomáš Kačer

Chapter 2 “I’m Not There: Toward Albee’s Reception in China”
Author: Eddie Hanchen Feng

Chapter 3 “A Volcanic Contribution: The Zoo Story and the 1960s Brazilian Stages”
Author: Esther Santana

Chapter 4 “Edward Albee on Iranian Stages: A Critical Ethnography”
Authors: Mohammadali (Al) Dabiri and Deniz Khateri

Chapter 5 “American Absurdism as Philosophy: Edward Albee in Germany”
Author: Philipp Reisner

Chapter 6 “The Communication Paradigm in Recent German Albee Scholarship: A Review Essay”
Author: Philipp Reisner

Chapter 7 “Edward Albee’s 21st Century Spanish Canon: Bringing It Up to Speed or Honoring the Tradition?”
Author: Ramón Espejo Romero

Chapter 8 “Albee’s Greek Legacy in The Goat or, Who Is Sylvia?”
Author: Antonia Tsamouris

Chapter 9 “Interview: Philip Arnoult on Albee’s International Leadership”
Author: Natka Bianchini

Thanks to our series editor, Michael Y. Bennett, and our associate editor, Maija Birenbaum!

For more information about “New Perspectives in Edward Albee Studies,” visit our Book Series page.

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Staged Reading Series of Edward Albee’s Plays

May 10, 2023 at 8:46 pm - calendarMan

The Edward Albee Society is excited to share the announcement of an opportunity to hear Albee’s plays, both famous and little‑known, read at The Black Box Performing Arts Center in Englewood, New Jersey, in association with The Estate of Edward Albee, as part of an ongoing, free monthly series: EDWARD ALBEE: FROM A TO ZOO, An Exclusive Staged Reading Series of Edward Albee’s Plays.

First up on Wednesday, May 24th at 7:30 PM: The Sandbox and The American Dream.

Performances will be followed by a conversation with the cast, director, and Jakob Holder, Executive Director of The Edward F. Albee Foundation. For updates on other readings, check the Black Box’s series webpage.

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Scholarly Article: Tiny Alice added to Works

July 26, 2022 at 6:33 am - calendarMan

Our website’s Works area continues to grow! Celine Rafferty has contributed a plot summary and critical analysis for Albee’s play, Tiny Alice.

Visit the Tiny Alice page in our Works area to enjoy all of these materials.

We would like to thank Ms. Rafferty for her contributions.

The Edward Albee Society’s Works web page is an ongoing project that catalogs the legacy and expands the scholarship of Edward Albee’s works. The page contains plot summaries, critical analyses, additional commentary, select bibliography, and overviews of collected editions.

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New Book Series, “The Routledge Studies in Edward Albee and American Theatre”

November 18, 2021 at 6:43 am - calendarMan

The Edward Albee Society is proud to announce the launch of The Routledge Studies in Edward Albee and American Theatre and sends out this call for proposals for new projects.

The new book series Studies in Edward Albee and American Theatre aims to examine mid-to-late 20th Century American theatre; its most influential and important playwright, Edward Albee; and his contemporaries.

The following are examples of texts that could be included in the Edward Albee series:

A volume that highlights disability and performance in modern and contemporary American theatre.
An edited anthology of Edward Albee and the American Theatre of the 1950s
A monograph exploring Adrienne Kennedy’s work and the Black Arts Movement.

We welcome proposals that expand our perspectives and that of the field and look forward to reading your submissions. Please do check out the book series page on the official Routledge website.

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Volume 4 of “New Perspectives in Edward Albee Studies” Published

March 7, 2021 at 6:37 am - calendarMan

Brill has published the fourth volume of “New Perspectives in Edward Albee Studies,” Albee and Influence! Visit the Brill website for complete details.

The volume contains essays, written by leading Albee scholars, that focus on literary and philosophical influences on Edward Albee’s plays as well as essays on writers and works that Albee influenced. Essays focus on Albee’s relationship with such major American playwrights as Thornton Wilder, Amiri Baraka, Sam Shepard, Lanford Wilson and John Guare. There are also contributions on Albee’s work as mentor to young playwrights. The volume also includes an interview with award-winning director Pam McKinnon.

The table of contents includes:

“Introduction”
John M. Clum

“Part 1 Influences on Albee”
Editors: John M. Clum and Natka Bianchini

Chapter 1 “‘Lean[ing] against a Proscenium’: Edward Albee’s Me, Myself & I as Homage to Thornton Wilder”
Author: Lincoln Konkle
Chapter 2 “‘The Opposition of Artworks to Domination Is Mimesis of Domination’: Albee via Adorno as a Conduit for Postmodern Playwriting”
Author: David Marcia
Chapter 3 “Animal Sacrifice in Albee’s Plays and Its Influence on the Contemporary Stage”
Author: Philipp Reisner

“Part 2 Albee’s Influence”
Editors: John M. Clum and Natka Bianchini

Chapter 4 “Love and Lies in the Living Room Dramas of John Guare, Tennessee Williams, and Edward Albee”
Author: Michael Y. Bennett
Chapter 5 “Dramatic Dialogue: Amiri Baraka’s Response to Edward Albee’s Influence”
Author: Douglas S. Kern
Chapter 6 “‘To Fail … and to Fail Interestingly’: Edward Albee, Sam Shepard and The Playwrights Unit”
Author: Shannon Blake Skelton
Chapter 7 “Self-Constructed Dramatists: Edward Albee and Lanford Wilson as Outsider Playwrights”
Author: David A. Crespy
Chapter 8 “Resistant Influencer: Edward Albee and Queer Plays of the 1960s”
Author: Lesley Broder
Chapter 9 “‘Laughter and Pain’: Edward Albee and Nicky Silver”
Author: John M. Clum

“Part 3 Interviews”
Editors: John M. Clum and Natka Bianchini

Chapter 10 “Interview: Director Pam MacKinnon on Finding the Artistic ‘Spine’ of Her Career and Working with Albee”
Author: Natka Bianchini

Thanks to our series editor, Michael Y. Bennett, and our associate editor, Maija Birenbaum!

For more information about “New Perspectives in Edward Albee Studies,” visit our Book Series page.

The cover for Albee and Influence (Photo by Brill)

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Brill Backlist Book Sale

November 18, 2020 at 7:20 pm - calendarMan

Add back volumes of New Perspectives in Edward Albee Studies or other Brill titles to your library: During the Brill Backlist Book Sale you may purchase all backlist titles at 40% off the list price. The sale runs until 31 December 2020. Just reference offer code 71276 with your order. For more details and to browse titles, please visit the Brill website.

Published by Brill, New Perspectives in Edward Albee Studies—a publication of The Edward Albee Society—is a book series that provides an outlet for scholarship and criticism on, or related to, Edward Albee and his works. Annual volumes feature original, academic essays, review-essays, and occasional interviews centered on a special topic. Each volume is edited by a different Editor. The book series welcomes and encourages different critical and theoretical scholarly approaches to Albee studies. In keeping with Albee’s own view that drama is literature, New Perspectives in Edward Albee Studies is also very interested in essays that examine Albee’s plays as dramatic literature.

For more information about New Perspectives in Edward Albee Studies, please visit our Book Series page.

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Call for Submissions: Edward Albee Abroad

September 13, 2020 at 2:43 pm - calendarMan

Call for Submissions for Volume Five of New Perspectives in Edward Albee Studies, the Official Publication of the Edward Albee Society. Published annually by Brill.

(Volume One, Edward Albee and Absurdism, published January 2017, Volume Two, Sex, Gender, and Sexualities in Edward Albee’s Plays, published March 2018, Volume Three, Edward Albee as a Theatrical and Dramatic Innovator, published May 2019, Volume Four, Edward Albee: Influences and Influencer forthcoming, early 2021.)

Topic: Edward Albee Abroad

We are seeking essays that explore Albee’s work, influence, and reach abroad (i.e., outside of the American theatre). We encourage submissions from graduate students as well as established scholars or theatre professionals from any approach (e.g., theatre history, performance studies, literary theory and criticism), as well as those who have worked with Mr. Albee in any of the above activities.

Please contact both the Series Editor, Michael Y. Bennett (email: bennettm@uww.edu), and Volume #5 co-Editors, Esther Marinho Santana (email: esther.mrst@gmail.com) and Valentine Vasak (email: valentine.vasak@gmail.com). For submission guidelines, please see the general call for submissions on the Edward Albee Society website:

http://edwardalbeesociety.org/new-perspectives-in-edward-albee-studies-a-book-series/call-for-submissions/

Deadline of submission for completed manuscripts: January 31^st, 2021.

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Volume 3 of “New Perspectives in Edward Albee Studies” Published

June 29, 2019 at 6:18 am - calendarMan

Brill has published the third volume of “New Perspectives in Edward Albee Studies,” Edward Albee as Theatrical and Dramatic Innovator! Visit the Brill website for complete details.

The publication offers eight essays and a major interview by important scholars in the field that explore this three-time Pulitzer prize-winning playwright’s innovations as a dramatist and theatrical artist. They consider not only Albee’s award-winning plays and his contributions to the evolution of modern American drama, but also his important influence to the American theatre as a whole, his connections to art and music, and his international influence in Spanish and Russian theatre.

The table of contents includes:

“Editors’ Introduction”
David A. Crespy and Lincoln Konkle

“Designing Edward/Edward Designing: A Brief History of Edward Albee’s Role in Theatrical Design”
David A. Crespy

“Theatrical Thanatology: Direct Address, Gestural Storytelling, and the Triple Goddess in Three Plays about Dying by Edward Albee”
Milbre Burch

“The Glee of Vulnerability: Becoming Kin with Edward Albee’s Goat”
Parisa Shams

“A Queer Reading of Love in Edward Albee’s Counting the Ways”
Ashley Raven

“Albee Stages Secular Epiphany”
Nathan Hedman

“Art Is a Hammer: Aura, Textual Awareness, and Comedy in Albee”
David Marcia

“Affecting the Lives of ‘Others’: The Journey of Albee’s Plays in the Soviet Union”
Julia Listengarten

“The (Mis)Representation of Edward Albee in Spain, 1963–2010”
Ramón Espejo Romero

“Inside the Black Box: Albee’s Visual Aesthetics of Obscurity”
Valentine Vasak

“‘I Trap People’: An Interview with Edward Albee”
Jackson R. Bryer

Thanks to our series editor, Michael Y. Bennett, and our associate editor, Maija Birenbaum!

For more information about “New Perspectives in Edward Albee Studies,” visit our Book Series page.

Edward Albee as Theatrical and Dramatic Innovator Cover

The cover for Edward Albee as Theatrical and Dramatic Innovator (Photo by Brill)

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Call for Submissions: Edward Albee’s Influence on American Drama

February 13, 2018 at 6:22 am - calendarMan

Call for Submissions for Volume Four of New Perspectives in Edward Albee Studies, the Official Publication of the Edward Albee Society. Published annually by Brill.

(Volume One, Edward Albee and Absurdism, published January 2017, Volume Two, Sex, Gender and Sexualities in Edward Albee’s Plays forthcoming, March 2018.)

Topic: Edward Albee’s Influence on American Drama

We are seeking essays that explore Albee’s influence and reach in the American theatre. This could include playwrights whom he mentored directly, playwrights who were inspired by him, his role as director of both his own and others’ work, collaborators who worked with him, and artists whose own careers were in some way shaped by him.

In particular, we are interested in essays on any or all of the following topics:

The work of the Playwrights Unit, part of Albarwild Theatre Arts, Inc.
Albee’s mentorship of playwrights such as Adrienne Kennedy, Lanford Wilson, Amiri Baraka, Terrence McNally, Megan Terry, John Guare, A.R. Gurney, Sam Shepard, and others
Albee’s partnership with the Cherry Lane theatre and his contributions to off-Broadway theatre
Imitators of Albee’s Style
Albee as professor and his work in the academy
Albee’s influence on LGBTQ theatre

We encourage submissions from graduate students as well as established scholars or theatre professionals from any approach (e.g., theatre history, performance studies, literary theory and criticism), as well as those who have worked with Mr. Albee in any of the above activities.

Please contact Volume Editor Natka Bianchini (nbianchini@loyola.edu) for queries, proposals, and/or submissions. For submission guidelines, please see the general call for submissions on the Edward Albee Society website:

http://edwardalbeesociety.org/new-perspectives-in-edward-albee-studies-a-book-series/call-for-submissions/

Deadline of submission for completed manuscripts: November 15, 2018.

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