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Call for a Reviews Editor

6 November 2026

The Performance Research journal is seeking an incoming Reviews Editor, to begin work in January 2027 for an initial three-year term. This is an opportunity to join a team of committed global scholars and artists invested in innovative and equitable publishing.

The Reviews Editor should be attentive to new trends in Performance Studies, to uplift emergent voices in the field, value a diverse range of scholars, methods and topics and operate with a generously collegial attitude to support contributing scholars.

While the position is unpaid, it offers the post holder the opportunity to develop editorial skills vis-à-vis the curation and management of published work, to expand international networks of collaboration and collegiality with both select presses and contributing scholars, and to enhance experience for CV purposes. A free subscription to the journal is provided.

All are welcome to apply; no prior editorial experience is required as we will work with the new editor to ensure they are supported in the role.

About Performance Research:

Since 1996, Performance Research has set a precedent that has become standard for thematic and cross-disciplinary ways of bringing together the varied materials of artistic and theoretical research in the expanded field of performance. Working closely with designers, artists, academics, theorists, performance practitioners and writers, Performance Research resists disconnected, disembodied and disinterested forms of scholarship. We prefer instead the possibilities of imagining the journal as a dynamic space of performance that produces inspiring conversations, unlikely connections and curious confluences. Our emphasis on contemporary performance arts within changing cultures and technologies is reflected in the interdisciplinary vision and international scope of the journal. Performance Research continues to combine writings and works for the page in an interplay of analysis, anecdote, polemic and criticism – interweaving the oblique with the conflicting, the pivotal with the resistant and the eclectic with the indispensable.

Reviews Editor responsibilities:

Performance Research is published six to eight times annually (some of the 8 issues per volume appear as double issues) online and in print with each issue being themed. The Reviews Editor has full responsibility for curating the Reviews Section. As such, the Reviews Editor:

Monitors press catalogues and selects the works to be reviewed
Commissions reviewers for each review/receives submissions for reviews
Liaises with relevant presses to secure a review copy text for contributing reviewers
Supports reviewers in shaping their submissions
Liaises with the designated managing editor to support final revisions

Reviews may also be expanded beyond publications to include, for example, performances, conferences, archives, and festivals.

Mentorship will be provided for those who seek guidance or support when beginning this role and on an ongoing basis.

If you are interested: Please email a cover letter expressing your interest and experience, along with a relevant CV, to Deputy Editor Felipe Cervera at info@performance-research.org. Closing date Friday 27 November 2026.

Online interviews will take place in December. If you have questions about the role prior to submission, please don’t hesitate to reach out to the current Reviews Editor Kfir Lapid-Mashall (kfir.lapid-mashall@glasgow.ac.uk).

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Performance Research is an independent, peer-reviewed journal published by Routledge, Taylor & Francis for ARC, a division of the Centre for Performance Research Ltd, an educational charity limited by guarantee (company number 2315790; charity number 701544).

General Editor: Helena Grehan

Deputy Editor: Felipe Cervera

Managing Editors: Helen Gethin, Helen Pendry

Reviews Editor: Kfir Lapid-Mashall

www.performance-research.org.uk/ www.tandfonline.com/journals/rprs20

email: info@performance-research.org

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Online launch - 4 issues - 10 July 2025

27 June 2025

Join the Performance Research (PR) Journal’s First Semesterly Online Launch Event

You are cordially invited by the General/Associate Editors of the PR journal to join them for the first in a new series of online launch events to celebrate and explore PR’s four most recently published issues. The guest editors of each edition will be present to introduce their themes after which the floor will be opened to general discussion.

The event will take place via Zoom on Thursday 10 July from 10.00 –11.30 UTC (check local times at https://time.is/UTC).

Zoom link: https://bit.ly/prjlaunch (Meeting ID: 997 4827 4626: Passcode: 177203)

For more information contact us at: info@performance-research.org

The four issues to be presented are:

Vol. 28, No.6: On Activation

Editors: Eylül Fidan Akıncı and Christel Stalpaert

https://bit.ly/4kRuEZK

Vol. 29, No. 1: On Repertoire

Editor: Mischa Twitchin

https://bit.ly/4ebjw7x

Vol. 29, No. 2: On Social Imaginaries
Editors Danae Theodoridou with Falk Hübner

https://bit.ly/4ecGgnE