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 Editor:
Buffy — Artist / Writer

Book Reviews Editors:
Annie Sansonetti — New York University
Rosed Serrano — University of Pennsylvania

Performance Reviews Editors:
Sonya Merutka — Princeton University
Alhena Katsof — New York 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
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
Liz 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
Alan Ruiz — Artist
Juana María Rodríguez — University of California, Berkeley
Rebecca Schneider — Brown University
Aliza Shvarts — Parsons School of Design
Elizabeth Stinson — New York University
Alina Troyano — Performance Artist
Jeanne Vaccaro — University of Kansas
Alexandra T. Vazquez — New York University

Editorial Collective:

Buffy — Artist / Writer
E. Barnick — New York University 
Barbara Browning — New York University 
Joanna Evans — New York University 
Kristen Holfeuer — New York University 
Alhena Katsof — New York University
Sarah Richter — New York University 
Isabelle Hui Saldaña — New York University 
Annie Sansonetti — New York University 
Blanca Ulloa — New York University 
Tara Aisha Willis — Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago 
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