Text and Performance Quarterly invites scholarship that explores and advances the study of performance as a social, communicative practice; as a technology of representation and expression; and as a hermeneutics. Manuscripts addressing performance and the performative from a wide range of perspectives and methodologies, including the historical, rhetorical, feminist, ethnographic, psychological/psychoanalytic, political, and aesthetic are welcome. Likewise, all sites of performance from the classical stage to popular culture to the practices of everyday life, critically and interpretively engaged, are appropriate for consideration. In all cases, it is incumbent on contributors to clearly establish how their submissions advance knowledge of/in performance studies as they engage it in their essays.

 In addition to standard monographs, TPQ invites submissions for "Performance in Review." This section seeks analyses of performance across a wide range of venues, from professional stages to those of everyday life, and encourages exploration of/in a variety of scholarly modes, including traditional critical essays, interviews, and performance scripts/ protocols. TPQ also seeks reviews of texts which advance the interdisciplinary field of performance studies; review essays which engage multiple texts are especially invited.