Call For Proposals: Theater and Performance Studies Workshop (2025-2026)

A YEAR IN VISUAL AND PERFORMANCE CULTURES

UChicago’s Theater and Performance Studies Workshop seeks project proposals for the 2025-2026 academic year. We are soliciting ongoing work from graduate students and faculty including scholarly writing, performances, and conference-style talks.

We encourage proposals on theater and performance broadly. As workshop coordinators, we would like to support all theater and performance works of colleagues and peers at the university and in the broader art community.

The workshop aims to foster a community of colleagues and practitioners within and beyond the walls of UChicago. It is a place for close reading and close conversation—an opportunity to exchange good-faith feedback for work at any stage of production and across media and writing genres. We are eager to talk across methods, and welcome joint presenter-respondent submissions.

Please submit your proposals via google form. We will continue to receive proposals throughout the fall quarter.

If you have any questions, please reach out to Yiwen Wu (ywu10@uchicago.edu). For announcements from the TAPS workshop, please visit our website. To stay in touch with our workshop, please subscribe to our list-serv.

We look forward to finding out what you’re working on!

Yiwen Wu