Theatre Topics 35.3

For the online portion of the journal, I contributed to this article by Donatella Galella, with additional contributions from Chari Arespacochaga, Eric Mayer-García, Pria Ruth Williams, and Samuel Yates.

Abstract

Based on the American Theatre and Drama Society’s States/Stages of Emergency symposium of summer 2024, this online Note from the Field addresses contemporary attacks on DEI pedagogy, international and undocumented students, LGBTQ+ rights, academic freedom, shared governance, and tenure in the United States. The coauthors, principally theatre and performance studies educators-scholars-artists working in Republican-controlled states, offer a toolkit of strategies, including refusing to obey in advance, attending to the letter of the law rather than the spirit of the law, and acting in solidarity.