Erika Hughes has published essays on theatre history and performance making in a range of major peer-reviewed academic journals and edited volumes including Theatre Topics, Research in Drama Education, Performance Research, Youth Theatre Journal, and the Journal of European Studies. A selected bibliography is below. 

Co-editor, Youth Theatre Journal special issue: “Intergenerational Drama.” Co-edited with Angela Sweigart-Gallagher. Youth Theatre Journal is the official journal of the American Alliance for Theatre & Education and published by Taylor & Francis. Publication October 2020. 

“Performing Witnessing: Dramatic Engagement, Trauma and Museum Installations.” Research in Drama Education 23.2, 2018. 274-281. 

“The Veterans Project: Historiography in/as Performance.” Theatre Topics 27.3, 2017. 179-186.

“Dramaturgies of Risky Play: Two (risky) case studies.” Youth Theatre Journal 31.1, Spring 2017. 35-47.

“Staging and Screening Anne Frank's Diary: Polemic and consensus in television, film, and theatrical adaptations.” In Critical Insights: Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl. Ipswich: Salem Press, 2017. 157-171.

“Embodied Historiography: Rupture as the Performance of History.” Co-authored with Boyd Branch. Performance Research special volume, “On Rupture.” December 2014. 108-115.

“Linie 1 and the GRIPS Theater: Traversing Divided and Reunified Berlin.” Nationalism and Youth in Theatre and Performance. Ed. Victoria Pettersen Lantz and Angela Sweigart-Gallagher. London: Routledge, 2014. 19-33.

“Defining the Child: Taboos of Fear and Age Appropriateness in Youth Holocaust Drama.” TYA, Culture, Society: International Essays on Theatre for Young Audiences. A Publication of ASSITEJ and ITYARN. Ed. Manon van de Water. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, May 2012. 69-84.

“The Holocaust in Contemporary Drama and Performance for Young Audiences.” Youth Theatre Journal 25: Spring 2011. 51-62. 

“Understanding Einverständnis: Ideology in Brecht’s Der Jasager and Der Neinsager.” Youth Theatre Journal 24: Fall 2010. 124-139. 

“Brecht’s Lehrstücke: Educational Theatre.” Key Concepts in Theatre/Drama Education. Ed. Shifra Schonmann. Rotterdam: Sense, 2010. 197-202. 

“Art and Illegality on the Weimar Stage: The Dances of Celly de Rheydt, Anita Berber and Valeska Gert.” Journal of 
European Studies. September 2009, Vol. 39. 320-335.

Please see her PURE profile at the University of Portsmouth website for additional links to her scholarship and research projects. ​​