International Journal of Scottish Theatre
	About IJoST

General background

There has been a major renaissance of Scottish theatre in all its aspects, from acting, through playwriting, to theatre building in the last three decades. This in turn has meant that, over the last ten years, there has been an increasing interest in teaching and studying this phenomenon and its antecedents. Drama and Literature degrees at Scottish universities include the study of Scottish theatre, the Drama Department at Queen Margaret University College leading in many ways in this study.

The international dimension complements this phenomenon. The Staging the Nation conference on the topic of the last three decades of Scottish theatre, held at Queen Margaret University College in September 1998, attracted attention and papers from all over the United Kingdom, Canada, the USA, France, Germany, Ireland and Croatia. The French periodical Etudes écossaises is now in its seventh year of publication, while in Germany alone there are some thirty-four departments where work is concerned with aspects of Scottish studies whether cultural, literary or linguistic.

There has been no existing journal engaged in the serious study of Scottish theatre to meet the developing needs of this growing market. The International Journal of Scottish Theatre fills this gap. IJOST publishes papers from any perspective, practical or theoretic, theatrical, dramatic, dramaturgic, critical, historical, economic, political, sociological, or from any other discipline. It particularly welcomes papers with an interdisciplinary or innovative approach.

Mission Statement

The journal's mission is

to publish papers on all aspects of theatre in Scotland and on the (re) presentation of Scotland and Scottish theatre on the international stage.

Pattern of Publication

June and December.

Mode of Publication

The International Journal of Scottish Theatre is an electronically published internationally peer-reviewed journal, which includes articles on all aspects of Scottish theatre at home and abroad. Each issue will usually contain five articles, four academic articles will usually be grouped round a theme, and a further one will be a forum article, a more speculative, biographical or philosophical article on a selected topic, important to Scottish theatre. Academic articles are double-blind reviewed.

International Advisory Board

• Professor Michael Anderson (Wales)
• Professor Clive Barker (England)
• Professor Christopher Baugh (England)
• Dr Martin Bowman (Canada)
• Professor David Bradby (England)
• Professor Keith Dixon (France)
• Professor Horst Drescher (Germany)
• Professor Peter Frisch (USA)
• Professor Vivien Gardner (England)
• David Hutchison (Scotland)
• Professor R.D.S. Jack (Scotland)
• Professor Denis Kennedy (Irish Republic)
• Professor Baz Kershaw (England)
• Dr Katja Lenz (Germany)
• Professor Jan Macdonald (Scotland)
• Dr Anna McMullan (Irish Republic)
• Professor Maggie Rose (Italy)
• Professor Denis Salter (Canada)
• Professor Boris Senker (Croatia)
• Randall Stevenson (Scotland)
• Professor Iain Wright (Australia)