About the Journal

Mission

GPS: Global Performance Studies is a peer-reviewed, Open Access academic journal. We provide a platform for scholars and artists engaged in a broad range of performance studies, including contemporary performance practices; theory, politics, social and cultural contexts of and as performance; performance and visual arts and media; and practices of resilience and care for everyday life. We emphasize a global perspective on these themes and practices, and aim to support under-represented narratives and epistemologies that trouble and contest the discipline of performance studies.

Platform

As an online platform, GPS aims to create and utilize digital methods of publishing as a method for supporting diverse and situated knowledges that intervene within centralized or universalizing academic discourses. We are interested in modes of scholarship that engage productively with the relationship between form and content, and we support video and audio papers, podcasts, and recordings; performance texts, scores, and scripts; as well as academic articles that take a more conventional text form. GPS is published biannually and is funded by Performance Studies international.

Editorial and peer-review policies

All submissions are considered by the editors for suitability in relation to the above mission.  Every submission that is accepted for consideration is assigned to two external reviewers whose expertise is appropriate to the submission. GPS uses double-blind peer review, where both reviewers and authors are anonymized, except in cases where authors cannot be anonymized (as in video pieces or other non-text formats). The editors will make the final decision about publication or assess the need for further revision, and are committed to supporting work from emerging and underrepresented scholars and areas of research.

We understand academic scholarship to be part of, and not separate from, the global contexts that it describes, and we are committed to editing as a political act, amplifying voices that are not always heard in global scholarship, and expanding possibilities for multilingual and coalitional publishing.

Open access policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available supports more equitable participation in academic scholarship. We do not charge fees for accessing articles, nor for publishing or processing submissions.

Editors

Dr. Tania Cañas
Post Doctoral Fellow, Centre for Arts and Social Transformation (CAST)
Waipapa Taumata Rau | The University of Auckland (Aotearoa New Zealand)

Dr. Nesreen N. Hussein
Associate Researcher, Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies
University of Bern (Switzerland)

Dr. Refiloe Lepere
Senior Lecturer, Wits School of Education
University of Witwatersrand (South Africa)

Dr. Theron Schmidt
Assistant Professor, Media and Culture Studies
Utrecht University (Netherlands)

Founding Editor

Dr. Kevin Brown
Associate Professor of Digital Media and Performance Studies
University of Missouri (USA)

Editorial Board

Dr. Maaike Bleeker
Professor of Theatre Studies
Utrecht University (Netherlands)

Dr. Debra Caplan
Assistant Professor of Theatre
Baruch College, City University of New York (USA)

Dr. Heather Carver
Chair, Department of Theatre
University of Missouri (USA)

Dr. Matthew Causey
Head of School and Professor of Creative Arts
Trinity College Dublin (Ireland)

Dr. Steve Dixon
President, LASALLE College of the Arts (Singapore)

Dr. Peter Eckersall
Executive Officer and Professor, Theatre and Performance
The Graduate Center, City University of New York (USA)

Dr. Jason Farman
Professor and Director of the Design Cultures & Creativity Program
University of Maryland, College Park (USA)

Dr. Elizabeth Jochum
Associate Professor, Research Laboratory for Art and Technology
Department of Communication and Psychology, Aalborg University (Denmark)

Dr. Jazmin Llana
Professor of Drama, Theatre, and Performance
Department of Literature, De La Salle University-Manila (Philippines)

Dr. Paige McGinley
Associate Professor of Performing Arts
Washington University in St. Louis (USA)

Dr. Jon McKenzie
Director of StudioLab and Professor of Practice
College of Arts and Sciences, Cornell University (USA)

Dr. Derek Miller
John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities
Harvard University (USA)

Dr. Jennifer Parker-Starbuck
Professor and Head of the School of Performing Arts and Digital Media
Royal Holloway, University of London (UK)

Dr. Paul Rae
Associate Professor and Head of School of Culture and Communication
University of Melbourne (Australia)

Dr. Heike Roms
Professor in Theatre and Performance
University of Exeter (UK)

Dr. David Saltz
Professor and Executive Director, Ideas for Creative Exploration
University of Georgia (USA)

Caridad Svich, MFA
English Department, Rutgers University-New Brunswick (USA)

Dr. Miguel Escobar Varela
Associate Professor of Theatre Studies
National University of Singapore (Singapore)

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