Logics of Conflict in Twentieth-Century Women’s Drama
Due Date: 10-15-2025
Collection editors Amanda Di Ponio (Huron University College) and Cristina Ionica (Fanshawe College) seek abstracts and full essays for a volume titled Logics of Conflict in Twentieth-Century Women’s Drama. We already have five completed essays on the dramatists Sarah Kane, Caryl Churchill, Paula Vogel, and Suzan-Lori Parks. We are interested in selecting six more essays examining various logics of conflict in contemporary women’s drama, for example:
• family/intergenerational
• war-related
• environmental
• class/gender/race-based
What themes, linguistic conventions, affective states, and body language emerge consistently from representations of conflict in women’s drama? How do various logics of conflict intersect and in what ways do they reflect on changing social realities? In what ways is conflict reimagined, redefined, and confronted in these works?
Here is a provisional list of dramatists we are considering for inclusion:
• Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti
• Cherríe Moraga
• Julia Cho
• Calleigh Crow
• Hannah Moscovitch
• Marie Clemens
We are open to including other dramatists writing in English whose work is a thematic fit for our collection.
Please submit proposals of 500 to 1,000 words or full papers to adiponio@uwo.ca and cristina_ionica@yahoo.com by 15 October 2025. We plan to submit the full collection for publication by July 2026.