GPS – Global Performance Studies
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.
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GPS Board
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
Professor, School of Drama, Film and Music
Trinity College Dublin (Ireland)
Dr. Steve Dixon
President, LASALLE College of the Arts (Singapore)
Dr. Peter Eckersall
The Graduate Center, City University of New York (USA)
Dr. Jason Farman
Associate Professor of American Studies, Director of Design Cultures & Creativity
University of Maryland, College Park (USA)
Dr. Elizabeth Jochum
Assistant Professor, Art and Technology, Erasmus Media Arts Cultures
Department of Communication and Psychology, Aalborg University (Denmark)
Dr. Jazmin Llana
Associate Professor of Drama, Theatre, and Performance
Department of Literature, De La Salle University-Manila (Philippines)
Dr. Paige McGinley
Assistant Professor of Performing Arts
Washington University in St. Louis (USA)
Dr. Jon McKenzie
Visiting Professor of English
Dean’s Fellow for Media and Design
College of Arts and Sciences, Cornell University (USA)
Dr. Derek Miller
Assistant Professor of English, Harvard University (USA)
Dr. Jennifer Parker-Starbuck
Head of Department and Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies
Department of Drama, Theatre and Performance (UK)
Dr. Paul Rae
Associate Professor, School of Culture and Communication
University of Melbourne (Australia)
Dr. Heike Roms
Professor in Performance Studies
Aberystwyth University (UK)
Dr. David Saltz
Associate Professor and Head Executive Director, Ideas for Creative Exploration University of Georgia (USA)
Caridad Svich, MFA
English Department, Rutgers University-New Brunswick (USA)
Dr. Miguel Escobar Varela
Assistant Professor of Theatre Studies, National University of Singapore (Singapore)