Students must apply directly to the Expository Writing Program for these positions. The Office of Housing and Residence Life seeks applicants in January and February of each year for resident assistants for the following year. Resident assistants live and work in undergraduate and graduate resident hall facilities and develop programs, provide counseling and referral services, and perform administrative tasks. The remuneration for a resident assistantship is room and board. Housing information is outlined in the graduate admissions application.
Most issues are eclectic, dealing with live performance, media, and performance theory.
Topics range from experimental performance to ethnographic studies. Articles are published detailing performances in a variety of cultures from all over the world. TDR invites opinions, debates, letters from readers and contributors, and reports on performances, books, conferences, and festivals. In addition to the editor and associate editor, two graduate students work on TDR, one as managing editor. A Journal of Feminist Theory is a semiannual publication produced independently by students at the Department of Performance Studies.