Executive Editor - Sandra Adell
Sandra Adell is a literature professor in the Department of Afro-American Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
She specializes in twentieth-Century African American Literature, Literary Criticism and Theory, Black Francophone Literature, and Black Theater.
She is the author of Double Consciousness/Double Bind: Theoretical Issues in Twentieth Century Black Literature (University of Illinois Press, 1994), and Literary Masters: Toni Morrison (Detroit: Gale Group, 2002), and a memoir titled Confessions of a Slot Machine Queen (Madison, WI.: EugeniaBooks, 2010).
She also is the volume editor for Dictionary of Twentieth Century Culture: African American Culture (Gale Group, 1996), and the editor of Contemporary African American Women Playwrights: Ten Complete Plays (University of Illinois Press, 2016)
Managing Editor - Denise J. Hart
A theatre Professor at Howard University, and coordinator of Playwriting at, Denise J. Hart is an award winning playwright and dramaturge. Former finalist in the O'Neill and the Lark, her most recent playwriting accomplishments include: Nothing to Lose (finalist 2018 Bay Area Playwrights).
Her dramaturgy/research credits include: August Wilson's Jitney at Hatiloo Theatre, Sweet Charity, Breath Boom, Zooman and the Sign and Joe Turner's Come and Gone.
Hart is the creator of the Visiting Playwrights Residency Series at Howard University, where she's helped shape the works of both national and international playwrights.
She is a founding member of the August Wilson Society, a member of the Dramatist Guild, Literary Managers and Dramaturges of the Americas, Black Theatre Network and the Association of Theatre in Higher Education. http://www.denisetheatre.com
Book Review Editor - Sharrell Luckett
Sharrell D. Luckett's research is situated in Theatre and Performance Studies. She is the author of YoungGiftedandFat: An Autoethnography of Size, Sexuality & Privilege (2018) and lead editor of Black Acting Methods: Critical Approaches (2017).
Luckett is a proud invitee of Harvard University's Mellon Institute of Theater and Performance Research, Cornell University's Performance Encounters series, Northwestern University’s Mellon Program in Black Feminist Performance, and the esteemed Lincoln Center Directors Lab.
She is an Assistant Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at Muhlenberg College.
Performance Review Editor - Melda Beaty
elda Beaty is a playwright, author and English professor at Olive-Harvey College. Her play writing credits include, Front Porch Society. which had its world premier May, 2017 at the Ensemble Theatre in Houston, Texas. Her latest play, Coconut Cake,was chosen for the 2017 National Black Theatre Festival's New Works Reader’s Series.
Melda is also an author of two books (Lime and My Soul to His Spirit: Soulful Expressions from Black Daughters to Their Fathers) the mother of three dynamic daughters and a proud member of the Black Theatre Network.
Associate Editors
Valerie Curtis-Newton, University of Washington, Seattle
Philip Effiong, Michigan State University
Artisia Green, College of William and Mary
Associate editors participate in the peer review process for Continuum Journal. Each editor will review no more than 2 papers in one year.
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