Call for Papers

Deadline for Submission of abstracts: March 15, 2010

Kean University’s International Conference on American Drama 
in conjunction with a professional production of Our Town on campus

Seeking papers on the following:

  • *Reading Our Town from a variety of approaches
    • A panel that reads an American play from a variety of approaches
    • Culture, History, and/or Politics in American Drama
  • Human Rights/Genocide and American Drama
  • Disability and American Drama
  • Aging and American Drama
  • American Women Playwrights
  • Ethnic-American Playwrights
  • Contemporary American Playwrights
  • If you have personal contacts to playwrights and can invite them please do so!
    • Successful approaches to teaching an American play
    • Jersey as a locale for American plays
    • Performance and American Theater
    • Reading of a new American Play

Deadline for abstracts: May 12, 2010

Send abstracts to: americandrama@kean.edu

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