Fascicle 1: Polish Literature

Theme: Theatre – Tradition and Challenges of Contemporary

The Editorial Board of Roczniki Humanistyczne (Annals of Arts), Fascicle 1: Polish Literature is seeking contributions of high academic quality for the forthcoming 2027 issue: Theatre – Tradition and Challenges of Contemporary. We especially, although not exclusively, encourage papers in the following areas:

– tradition as inspiration – traditions that are alive and important for contemporary theatre combined with modernity,
– dialogue with tradition in contemporary drama/writing for the stage,
– stage games with memory – theatre as a space for commemoration, discussion about the past and confrontation between the past and the present and contemporary threats,
– famous and not so famous theatre artists – additions to artistic biographies,
non-canonical approaches to classics, new interpretative tropes,
– theatre in academic reflection – changes in contemporary theatre research and new research perspectives.

We also are interested in texts devoted to the work of lesser-known artists, as well as individual works of themes or motifs that fit in with the theatrical theme of the announced volume. We are open to interdisciplinary approaches that allow for a multidimensional framing of the specificity of contemporary theatrical phenomena.

We accept only unpublished papers of high academic quality, reserving the right to preselect articles in terms of both subject matter and editorial content.

Preferred languages: Polish, English.

Article length: up to 35,000 characters with spaces (including abstracts, key words, and bibliography).

Formatting: The Chicago Manual of Style 17^th ed. (the footnotes and bibliography system: https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html)

Deadline for submission: 15 May, 2026.

Contributions should be submitted via our Open Journal System: https://czasopisma.tnkul.pl/index.php/rh/login

Address for correspondence:

Secretary, Dr. Habil. Joanna Michalczuk, email: joanna.michalczuk@kul.pl