About Etudes
Etudes is, as the masthead tells you, an online theatre and performance studies journal for emerging scholars.
What does that mean, "emerging scholars?" From what are we emerging? Into what? What exactly defines one as having emerged?
What a journal for emerging scholars means for us is that it is a place to try things, to study, to dangle toes in the shallows or cannonball into the deep end. But mostly, it's a place that celebrates those voices that haven't yet received their desired level of amplification.
Before we mix our metaphors any further, here's the deal. We believe:
What does that mean, "emerging scholars?" From what are we emerging? Into what? What exactly defines one as having emerged?
What a journal for emerging scholars means for us is that it is a place to try things, to study, to dangle toes in the shallows or cannonball into the deep end. But mostly, it's a place that celebrates those voices that haven't yet received their desired level of amplification.
Before we mix our metaphors any further, here's the deal. We believe:
- Success builds on success
- Success builds on community
- Each scholar has her/his own performative, unique voice
- That voice should be heard, not drowned out by traditions and shoulds
- Scholarship need not be dry to be rigorous
EDITORS-in-Chief/Co-Founders
Editorial Board
Dr. Mary Anderson - Wayne State University
Dr. Michael Butterworth - Independent Scholar Karenanna Creps - Michigan State University Stephanie Cunningham - Independent Scholar Dr. Maria Enriquez - Penn State - Harrisburg Dr. Jeanmarie Higgins - Pennsylvania State University Dr. Victor Holtcamp - Tulane University Dr. Erin Kathleen Kelly - Rutgers University Dr. Patrick Konesko - University of Wyoming Dr. Patricia Leavy - Independent Scholar |
Dr. Amy Lehman - University of South Carolina
Jenna Lourenco - Emmanuel College Kate Neff Stone - University of California, Irvine Nadine Schmidt - Southwest Minnesota State University Jerrold Scott - Case Western Reserve University Brian M. Scruggs - Eastern Michigan University Dr. Angenette Spalink - Texas A&M University Jim Tabaka - Southwest Minnesota State University Sheila Tabaka - Southwest Minnesota State University Dr. Miriam Hahn Thomas - Wofford College Dr. Quincy Thomas - Bowling Green State University |
Header photo by Jennifer Goff