Barbara Hodgdon Award
This award recognizes outstanding scholarship in the field of Shakespeare and Performance, broadly conceived. Created in honor of Barbara Hodgdon (1932-2018) and inspired by her capacious and groundbreaking approach to the field, the award takes a wide view of performance and encompasses scholarship on Shakespeare’s works or Shakespeare adaptations spanning diverse media, geographies, and time periods. The prize seeks to recognize work that is innovative in method and scope and that opens up new discussions or avenues of inquiry in the field of performance. Submissions should be between approximately 5,000 and 10,000 words (inclusive of notes and bibliography) and may include journal articles in regular or special issues; book chapters from edited collections or monographs; introductions to books, collections, or editions; or essays published in online forums. Work must have appeared either in print or online during the calendar year two years before the SAA meeting at which the award is presented (i.e. the prize in 2025 would be awarded to an article that appeared in 2023). Collaboratively authored submissions are welcome, but all authors are limited to one entry, which cannot be simultaneously considered for the Innovative Article Award. All authors who submit work for consideration must be SAA members in good standing. Please direct any questions about eligibility to the prize committee chaired by Jane Hwang Degenhardt.
Deadline: 1 December 2024.