TDR Contributing Editors

Hello. Goodbye. Thanks

Every so often, TDR’s roster of editors changes. Usually, this is a matter of one or two people leaving and an equal number arriving. But this time there are more, and the transition is based on my wish to bring to TDR both young, emerging scholars and mature, accomplished scholars.

I welcome five new contributing editors and two new book review editors. Let me introduce them—though surely many of their accomplishments are already known to TDR’s readers.

Contributing Editors

Sharon Aronson-Lehavi is a senior lecturer of theatre and performance studies at the Department of Comparative Literature, Bar-Ilan University, Israel. For the 2013/14 academic year she is the Lisa and Douglas Goldman Visiting Israeli Professor at Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies and Comparative Literature departments of the University of California, Berkeley. Aronson-Lehavi’s books are Gender and Feminism in Modern Theatre (2013), Street Scenes: Late Medieval Acting and Performance (2011), and Performance Studies in Motion (coedited with Ati Citron and David Zerbib, 2014).

Branislav Jakovljevic, TDR’s book review editor prior to becoming a contributing editor, is an Associate Professor in Stanford’s Theater and Performance Studies Department. His essays on late-19th-century theatre, the Russian and Soviet avantgarde, and American experimental performance have appeared in the US in TDR, Theatre Journal, PAJ, Art Journal, and Theatre as well as in various European journals. His first book, Daniil Kharms: Writing and the Event was published in 2009; his second book, Beyond the Performance Principle: Self-Management and Conceptual Art in Yugoslavia will be out in early 2015. Jakovljevic won ATHE’s Outstanding Article Award in 2009 for “From Mastermind to Body Artist: Political Performances of Slobodan Milosevic” (TDR 2008). In 2013, he chaired the 19th annual PSi conference, Now Then: Performance and Temporality, which was held at Stanford.

Amelia Jones is Professor and Grierson Chair in Visual Culture at McGill University, Montreal. Her books include Body Art/Performing the Subject (1998), Self-Image (2006), Seeing Differently (2012), The Artist’s Body (with Tracey Warr, 2012), and Perform Repeat Record (coedited with Adrian Heathfield, 2012). Recently she has published essays on performance art histories and theories, queer feminist art and theory, and feminist curating. In 2013 her exhibition, Material Traces: Time and the Gesture in Contemporary Art took place at the Leonard and Bina Ellen Gallery, Concordia University, Montréal. She will direct Trans-Montréal at the PSi meeting in 2015.

Erin B. Mee will oversee TDR’s adventures in Scalar. Her “Hearing the Music of the Hemispheres” is TDR’s first Scalar article (T219, 2013). Mee’s books include Theatre of Roots (2009), Drama Contemporary: India (editor, 2001), and Antigone on the Contemporary World Stage (coedited with Helene P. Foley, 2011). Her articles have appeared in TDR, Theatre Journal, Theater, PAJ, American Theatre, Seagull Theatre Quarterly, and in numerous books. She has directed productions at the Public Theatre, the Ontological Theatre at St. Mark’s, HERE, the New York Theatre Workshop, the Magic Theatre (San Francisco), the Guthrie Theater (Minneapolis), and twice with Sopanam in Kerala, India. She is Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow of English and Drama at NYU.

Nehad Selaiha, Professor of Drama and Theatre Studies at the Academy of Arts in Cairo, is drama critic for the national English-language newspaper Al-Ahram Weekly. The author of many books in Arabic and six collections in English of articles on Egyptian theatre from 1992 to 2004, she has chapters in The Local Meets the Global in Performance (eds. Pirkko Koski and Melissa Sihra, 2010) and Global Ibsen: Performing Multiple Modernities (eds. Erika Fischer-Lichte, Barbara Gronau, Christel Weiler, 2011), and is coauthor with Sarah Enany of “Women Playwrights in Egypt” (Theatre Journal, 2010). Selaiha’s most recent publication in the West is “The Fire and the Frying Pan: Censorship and the Performing Arts in Egypt” (TDR, 2013). In 2003, she won the Egyptian State Prize for Excellence in the Arts and in 2013 the Supreme State Award for Literature.

Book Review Editors

Dominika Laster, Director of Undergraduate Theater Studies and Lecturer in the Theater Studies Program at Yale, was from...