Noe Montez
@noemontez.bsky.social
Theatre and Performance Scholar
Associate Professor of Theater, Emory
ASTR VP for Publications. I write about Latinx/Latin American Performance, Theatre in Higher Education, Critical University Studies, and Sport as Performance.
Associate Professor of Theater, Emory
ASTR VP for Publications. I write about Latinx/Latin American Performance, Theatre in Higher Education, Critical University Studies, and Sport as Performance.
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Noe Montez
@noemontez.bsky.social
· Oct 7
The Academic Job Market in Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies 2011-Present
CW: ACADEMIC JOB MARKET
Too long a post for Bluesky- Find it here: www.facebook.com/noemontez
CW: ACADEMIC JOB MARKET
Too long a post for Bluesky- Find it here: www.facebook.com/noemontez
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This is the importance of buying the books we write and teach from university presses. The same administrations that don’t care about the humanities would be just as happy to have academic publishing handled by these companies. We can save our own publishing ecosystem- but we have to do it.
"academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it... The dominant four collectively generated... $12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024."
November 18, 2025 at 12:52 PM
This is the importance of buying the books we write and teach from university presses. The same administrations that don’t care about the humanities would be just as happy to have academic publishing handled by these companies. We can save our own publishing ecosystem- but we have to do it.
As someone who has had multiple flights cancelled and/or delayed this weekend…
I'm on Sunday duty at @defector.com today! First up, my newser on the airport crisis. Spoiler: Trump is fucking you. defector.com/if-youre-stu...
If You’re Stuck At An Airport Right Now, It’s Because Trump Fucked You | Defector
You picked a bad weekend to fly. Over 1,500 flights in the US were cancelled yesterday, and over 1,200 over them have already been cancelled this morning. One of those may have been yours. You’re stuc...
defector.com
November 9, 2025 at 6:08 PM
As someone who has had multiple flights cancelled and/or delayed this weekend…
Thank you ASTR 2025.
Our dreams are beautiful even when the world is on fire. Thank you for sharing your book ideas at the University of Iowa Press booth, beautiful meals, and friendship.
You keep me inspired.
Our dreams are beautiful even when the world is on fire. Thank you for sharing your book ideas at the University of Iowa Press booth, beautiful meals, and friendship.
You keep me inspired.
November 9, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Thank you ASTR 2025.
Our dreams are beautiful even when the world is on fire. Thank you for sharing your book ideas at the University of Iowa Press booth, beautiful meals, and friendship.
You keep me inspired.
Our dreams are beautiful even when the world is on fire. Thank you for sharing your book ideas at the University of Iowa Press booth, beautiful meals, and friendship.
You keep me inspired.
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TODAY is the last day to vote: If you live in the city of Atlanta and don't know who to vote for, go on over to the @atlpresscollective.com for candidate questionnaires.
November 4, 2025 at 11:48 AM
TODAY is the last day to vote: If you live in the city of Atlanta and don't know who to vote for, go on over to the @atlpresscollective.com for candidate questionnaires.
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Last chance to turn it off.
On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.
To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.
To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
October 31, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Last chance to turn it off.
On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.
To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.
To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
I’m very pleased to be named as the next series editor for the University of Iowa Press’s Studies in Theatre History and Culture series. I’ll be working with Heather Nathans though Jan 1, 2027 and will move fully into the role on that date.
Send me your book pitches and/or I’ll come find you!
Send me your book pitches and/or I’ll come find you!
October 13, 2025 at 10:20 PM
I’m very pleased to be named as the next series editor for the University of Iowa Press’s Studies in Theatre History and Culture series. I’ll be working with Heather Nathans though Jan 1, 2027 and will move fully into the role on that date.
Send me your book pitches and/or I’ll come find you!
Send me your book pitches and/or I’ll come find you!
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"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history."
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
Censorship Is the Authoritarian’s Dream
The right to free expression must include the right to say horrible and evil things.
www.insidehighered.com
September 19, 2025 at 10:24 AM
"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history."
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
I worked with Danielle Fenton-Rosvally, Julia Fawcett, & Amy Cook to create a document with best practices for search committees conducting an academic job search in TDPS.
I hope it’s a useful document & that committees will take some of this advice to heart.
cdn.ymaws.com/www.astr.org...
I hope it’s a useful document & that committees will take some of this advice to heart.
cdn.ymaws.com/www.astr.org...
cdn.ymaws.com
September 18, 2025 at 1:05 PM
I worked with Danielle Fenton-Rosvally, Julia Fawcett, & Amy Cook to create a document with best practices for search committees conducting an academic job search in TDPS.
I hope it’s a useful document & that committees will take some of this advice to heart.
cdn.ymaws.com/www.astr.org...
I hope it’s a useful document & that committees will take some of this advice to heart.
cdn.ymaws.com/www.astr.org...
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We’d be in a much stronger position right now if mainstream Democrats had taken a common sense stand for First Amendment principles instead of piling on undergraduate standing up for Palestine.
September 18, 2025 at 12:29 AM
We’d be in a much stronger position right now if mainstream Democrats had taken a common sense stand for First Amendment principles instead of piling on undergraduate standing up for Palestine.
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Disney has Tron: Ares, Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere, Rental Family, Zootopia 2, Ella McCay, Avatar: Fire and Ash, and Is This Thing On? opening this year. I hope the talent involved in these movies curtails all planned publicity until the company reverses its decision about Kimmel.
September 18, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Disney has Tron: Ares, Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere, Rental Family, Zootopia 2, Ella McCay, Avatar: Fire and Ash, and Is This Thing On? opening this year. I hope the talent involved in these movies curtails all planned publicity until the company reverses its decision about Kimmel.
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It can't be said often enough: the contemporary US right simply does not accept the background presumption that "we all have to live here together." They want to eliminate liberals! They're very vocal about it!
September 17, 2025 at 8:51 PM
It can't be said often enough: the contemporary US right simply does not accept the background presumption that "we all have to live here together." They want to eliminate liberals! They're very vocal about it!
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If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.
September 17, 2025 at 7:09 PM
If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.
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My optimism here is limited, but I really hope centrist institutions like universities and major news organizations understand that the plan is for the govt to dismantle them. They do not care if you fire your columnists or discipline staff for accurately quoting Kirk. They just want us all gone.
In a Hitleresque speech, JD Vance says there can be no unity with the left and vows to use the government to dismantle non-profit NGOs and liberal civil society who he says promote violence and terrorism.
September 15, 2025 at 6:59 PM
My optimism here is limited, but I really hope centrist institutions like universities and major news organizations understand that the plan is for the govt to dismantle them. They do not care if you fire your columnists or discipline staff for accurately quoting Kirk. They just want us all gone.
We are all beholden to the cowardice of university general counsels, as well as the trustees and administrators who enable them
September 3, 2025 at 7:41 PM
We are all beholden to the cowardice of university general counsels, as well as the trustees and administrators who enable them
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The “deal” that Brown made with the Trump admin is much more extreme than is being reported. It includes government oversight of course evaluations and no barrier to government interference in faculty hiring.
Read it for yourself here:
www.brown.edu/sites/defaul...
Read it for yourself here:
www.brown.edu/sites/defaul...
www.brown.edu
July 30, 2025 at 11:46 PM
The “deal” that Brown made with the Trump admin is much more extreme than is being reported. It includes government oversight of course evaluations and no barrier to government interference in faculty hiring.
Read it for yourself here:
www.brown.edu/sites/defaul...
Read it for yourself here:
www.brown.edu/sites/defaul...
A somewhat haphazard ATHE for me, but if you're looking for me you can find me at the following places...
July 28, 2025 at 2:37 AM
A somewhat haphazard ATHE for me, but if you're looking for me you can find me at the following places...
There was a very cool ten day period in late May/ early June when I found out that Olga Sanchez Saltveit and I had won the ATHE Edited Works Prize for the Routledge Companion to Latine Theatre and Performance and that I had also won the Sustained Achievement Award for Service to the Field.
July 21, 2025 at 3:34 PM
There was a very cool ten day period in late May/ early June when I found out that Olga Sanchez Saltveit and I had won the ATHE Edited Works Prize for the Routledge Companion to Latine Theatre and Performance and that I had also won the Sustained Achievement Award for Service to the Field.
I’ll have more to say about this at ASTR, but I’m glad to have had the support of the EC to find a new home for the journal.
July 16, 2025 at 12:29 PM
I’ll have more to say about this at ASTR, but I’m glad to have had the support of the EC to find a new home for the journal.
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the tide is going to turn back. and when it does we can't let places like penn pretend like they never did this
BREAKING
The University of Pennsylvania has come to an agreement with the Trump administration on what the Department of Education said was its Title IX violations.
This will include stripping trans athlete Lia Thomas of her records, titles, and recognitions.
The University of Pennsylvania has come to an agreement with the Trump administration on what the Department of Education said was its Title IX violations.
This will include stripping trans athlete Lia Thomas of her records, titles, and recognitions.
July 1, 2025 at 9:26 PM
the tide is going to turn back. and when it does we can't let places like penn pretend like they never did this
Both a record for myself and a PSA for TDPS folks but today’s episode of The Town podcast on Producing Broadway is a really good intro of the economic of the Broadway scene. Useful for teaching.
June 4, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Both a record for myself and a PSA for TDPS folks but today’s episode of The Town podcast on Producing Broadway is a really good intro of the economic of the Broadway scene. Useful for teaching.
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Any university that thinks this won't be their fate eventually is detached from reality. We work together or we fail apart.
Trump Administration Halts Harvard’s Ability to Enroll International Students
www.nytimes.com
May 22, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Any university that thinks this won't be their fate eventually is detached from reality. We work together or we fail apart.
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Just called Gillibrand and Schumer to demand they not only vote against the murderous Republican budget bill, but that they deny unanimous consent at every opportunity and do everything else they can to gum up the works. This is intolerable.
Find your senators here and make your own calls: reps.fyi
Find your senators here and make your own calls: reps.fyi
cis people: please call your senators today. Please please please. this is so critical. we’re begging you
May 22, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Just called Gillibrand and Schumer to demand they not only vote against the murderous Republican budget bill, but that they deny unanimous consent at every opportunity and do everything else they can to gum up the works. This is intolerable.
Find your senators here and make your own calls: reps.fyi
Find your senators here and make your own calls: reps.fyi