The national organization, The Women and Theatre Program (WTP), will be hosting virtual conference sessions on April 4 devoted to The Routledge Anthology of Women's Theatre Theory & Dramatic Criticism, co-edited by PMA Professor J. Ellen Gainor. A part of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) Spring Symposium, the conference sessions are titled “Learn, Share, Teach: Critical Responses to The Routledge Anthology of Women's Theatre Theory and Dramatic Criticism.”
This 2023 volume edited by Catherine Burroughs and J. Ellen Gainor is the first edited anthology to focus exclusively on women as theatre critics and theorists. WTP intends to celebrate the milestone this book achieves and to provide ATHE members with practical resources for how to learn, share, and teach the work of women often overlooked in standard accounts of theatre history and theory.
“We hope our session demonstrates the wealth and wonderful variety of women’s writing in theatre theory and criticism, and that it offers our colleagues and their students a more expansive understanding of foundational concepts in and approaches to our field,” said Gainor.
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