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Journal
Academic journal
The
Theatre Journal
is a quarterly
peer-reviewed
academic journal
covering the
theatre arts
,
[1]
with articles from the October and December issues centering on a predetermined theme. It is an official publication of
The Association for Theatre in Higher Education
[2]
and is published on their behalf by the
Johns Hopkins University Press
.
History
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The journal was established in 1949 as the
Educational Theatre Journal
and obtained its current name in 1979.
[3]
The American Educational Theatre Association intended the journal to serve the field of educational theatre and drama in a manner similar to how the
Quarterly Journal of Speech
and
Publications of the Modern Language Association of America
served the fields of speech and modern languages respectively.
[4]
The founding
editor-in-chief
was
Barnard Hewitt
(
University of Illinois at Urbana?Champaign
). Other past editors include
Oscar Brockett
,
James S. Moy
,
Sue-Ellen Case
,
Enoch Brater
,
William B. Worthen
,
Janelle Reinelt
,
Loren Kruger
,
David McDonald
,
Susan Bennett
,
David Roman
,
Harry Elam
,
Jean Graham-Jones
,
Penny Farfan
,
Ric Knowles
,
Joanne Tompkins
, and
Jennifer Parker-Starbuck
.
[5]
Abstracting and indexing
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The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
References
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External links
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