Decentering Moliere

This special issue redefines the conversation around the life, work, cultural context, and legacy of Molière, a French playwright, actor, poet, and pivotal cultural figure, and thereby presents new contributions to the fields of disability studies, queer theory, and postcolonial theory. It comprises essays first presented at the “Decentering Molière” conference, jointly hosted by New York University and Yale University in 2022 and commemorating the four hundredth year of the author’s birth. The issue also includes an artists’ roundtable with Elizabeth LeCompte, Faustin Linyekula, Peter Sellars, and Ashley Tata.

Contributors: Rebekah Ahrendt, Faith E. Beasely, Benoît Bolduc, Jan Clarke, Mark Franko, Amanda Gann, Sylvaine Guyot, Sara Harvey, Edwige Keller-Rahbé, Elizabeth LeCompte, Gideon Lester, Faustin Linyekula, Judith G. Miller, Nicholas Orvis, Martial Poirson, Jennifer Row, Lewis C. Seifert, Tom Sellar, Peter Sellars, Anna Sollazzo, Guy Spielmann, Christophe Schuwey, Ashley K. Tata, Frédéric Tinguely, Kate Valk, Rachel M. Watson