Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism seeks original, well-researched, and intellectually rigorous essays written from diverse critical perspectives and about texts from any time period or literary tradition.

Submissions to both the general section and the Forum should be between 3000 and 6000 words (not including the bibliography). All submissions should be double-spaced, written in English, and formatted according to the most recent MLA guidelines. Submissions should be uploaded as MS Word files through our website and online submission system. (https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/criterion/)

The Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) 2018 Conference

Boston, MA

August 1-5, 2018

42nd Comparative Drama Conference

Call for Papers

April 5-7, 2018  Orlando, Florida 

2018 Keynote Event

April 6, 2017      8 p.m. (followed by a reception)

A Conversation with Simon Stephens

 Abstract Submission Deadline: 3 December 2017

Please find below the CFP for the next issue of Platform: Journal of Theatre and Performing Arts — ‘On Magic’ (deadline: 26 February 2018). If you have an idea for this issue but are not sure it fits the CFP, please get in touch with us at platform-submissions@rhul.ac.uk!

Platform is a peer-reviewed journal published out of Royal Holloway, University of London and has been devoted to publishing the work of postgraduates, postdoctoral researchers, and entry-level academics in the fields of theatre and performing arts for almost 12 years. 

Platform: Journal of Theatre and Performing Arts 12.2: ‘On Magic’

The graduate students from the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies of the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities are pleased to announce that we will be hosting our annual conference, titled ''Horror vacui: V Annual Graduate Student Conference''. The conference will take place on March 30-31, 2018 in Minneapolis. Through the Latin expression horror vacui we intend to synthesize a comprehensive Western tradition of the creation of and approach to different kinds of emptiness, be they linguistics, political, cultural, or artistic voids, whose mere existence generates anguish and, thereby, legitimizes the strategies of their occupation and suppression.

We are proud to announce the participation of the plenary speakers: