New at CORD
News from the Editorial Board
This has been an exciting few months for the CORD Editorial Board. I am delighted to announce that an initiative we have worked on for months has now come to fruition. As of fall 2006, Dance Research Journal will be published by The University of Illinois Press. This move represents a major step forward in the evolution of CORD’s publishing program. UIP has steadily been increasing its list of scholarly books on dance, and its Journals Division includes some highly respected names in the field such as Journal of American Folklore; Journal of Aesthetic Education; Journal of Film and Video; American Music; and Feminist Teacher, among many others. We are honored to join UIP’s journal roster. The CORD Proceedings and Newsletter will also now be forthcoming from UIP.
The first UIP-published journal issue will appear in the winter of 2006 and will feature essays by Gay Morris, Selma Odom, and Peggy Phelan originally presented in honor of Marcia Siegel, who received the 2005 CORD Award for Outstanding Contribution to Dance Research. DRJ will be featuring several upcoming theme issues, including a special volume edited by Paul Scolieri, which will contain essays from the 2007 CORD Conference “Choreographies of Migration: Patterns of Social Mobility,” hosted by Paul and Barnard College; and the issue “Dance, the Disciplines, and Interdisciplinarity” to be guest-edited by Mark Franko. Also, watch for a new performance commentaries section of DRJ which will offer critical investigations of live performance, screen dance, and digital media.
I would like to note a few personnel changes. Jill Green, co-editor of DRJ, will be stepping down in December 2006. We would like to thank Jill immensely for her co-editorship of DRJ with Ann Dils over the last three years. She has been an extremely dedicated editor, and we will miss her energy, enthusiasm, and many forward-looking ideas. At the same time we are happy to announce that Ann Dils will continue on as sole DRJ editor for another term. Please continue to send your manuscript submissions and queries to Ann at the Department of Dance at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro.
As of December 2006 I will be completing my term, as well, as CORD Editorial Board Chair. I have been associated with CORD since 1999, first as DRJ Editor, then as Editorial Board Chair, and am very pleased to have been a member of the organization during a period of immense growth and productivity. I have been gratified to see our publications prosper during that time and wish to thank the CORD Editorial Board and the CORD Board, as well as all of our editors, for their deep commitment to furthering CORD’s scholarly contributions to dance studies. I am delighted to turn over the reins to our newly appointed Editorial Board Chair, Michael Huxley, who will officially begin his post as of January 2007. Michael, a former CORD Board Member, is Principal Lecturer in Dance at DeMontfort University in Leicester, England, and is co-editor of The Twentieth Century Performance Reader. We are fortunate to have Michael at the helm, and I wish him and the Editorial Board well in what is sure to be a rewarding era ahead in the future of DRJ and CORD’s publications.
Julie Malnig
Editorial Board Chair
November, 2006
(Julie Malnig is Associate Professor of Performance in the Gallatin School of New York University.)
