| ASTR Announces 2011 Award Winners |
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Thomas Marshall Graduate Student Awards:
1 - Michelle Granshaw, University of Washington (“The Irish-American Working Class and Popular Entertainment from the Civil War to World War I: A Case Study of the Hibernicon”)
2 - Brandon Woolf, UC-Berkeley (“Paradigmatic Instititutions: Cultural Policy and Contemporary Performance Nach der Wende”)
3 - David Calder, Northwestern University (“Visible Machinery: Street Theatre and Industrial Space in Contemporary France”)
David Keller Travel Grant:
1 - Jen Scott Mobley, Marymount Manhattan College, PhD CUNY 2010 (“Staging Fat: Dramaturgy, Female Bodies, and Contemporary American Culture”)
2 – Charlotte McIvor, Santa Clara University, PhD Berkeley, 2011 (“The New Interculturalism: Race, Gender, and Immigration in Post-Celtic Tiger Ireland”)
3 - Jenna L. Kubly, independent scholar, PhD Tufts, 2010 (“Vaudeville and the American Experience of the First World War as Seen by Variety”)
Helen Krich Chinoy Dissertation Research Award:
1 - Mary Isbell (Ph.D. candidate U of Connecticut)
"Nineteenth-Century Amateur Theatricals: A Transatlantic Cultural History"
2 - Bethany Wood (Ph.D. candidate U of Wisconsin, Madison)
“Capital Complex: Valuations of Femininity in 1920s: Stage Adaptations from Women’s Culture"
3 - Heidi Nees (Ph.D. candidate Bowling Green State University)
“Performance of the Native in Outdoor Historical Dramas”
Brooks McNamara Publication Subvention:
Soyica Colbert for The African American Theatrical Body: Reception, Performance, and the Stage (Cambridge University Press, 2011)
Research Fellowship:
Kathleen Johnson, Miami University (Ohio), for Razing the Great White Way: Toward a New Genealogy of Broadway’s Golden Era
Targeted Research Fellowships:
1 - Dave Dalton and Raul Galoppe (co-proposers) for "Don Gil" performance/research project (creating/producing a Spanish and contemporary English bilingual adaptation of Tirso de Molina’s Don Gil de las calzas verdes)
2 - Laura Edmondson for Genocide Performed: Narratives of Violence from East Africa, which analyzes the cultural traffic of genocide and mass violence in Uganda, Rwanda, and the (DR) Congo
Co-Sponsored Events Award:
Heather Nathans for “Triumph in My Song: 18th & 19th Century African Culture, History, and Performance”
Grants for Researchers with Heavy Teaching Loads:
Brian Herrera, University of New Mexico, for support of the book project: Latin Explosion: Latinos, Racial Formation, and Twentieth Century U.S. Popular Performance
Gerald Kahan Award for Best Essay in Theatre Studies by a Newer Scholar:
Anastasia Kayiatos, "Sooner Speaking than Silent, Sooner Silent than Mute: Soviet Deaf Theatre and Pantomime after Stalin," published in Theatre Survey (2010), 51: pp 5-31.
Oscar Brockett Essay Prize:
Elaine Aston, for "Feeling the Loss of Feminism: Sarah Kane's Blasted and an Experimental Genealogy of Contemporary Women's Playwriting," Theatre Journal 62.4 (2010) 575-591, special issue on "Contemporary Women Playwrights" edited by Penny Farfan and guest co-editor Lesley Ferris.
Honorable Mention: Sarah Bay-Cheng and Amy Strahler Holzapfel, "The Living Theatre: A Brief History of a Bodily Metaphor," Journal of DramaticTheory and Criticism.
Erroll Hill Award:
Harvey Young, Embodying Black Experience: Stillness, Critical Memory, and the Black Body. University of Michigan Press.
Honorable Mention: Nadine George-Graves, Urban Bush Women: Twenty Years of African American Dance Theater, Community Engagement, and Working it Out. University of Wisconsin Press.
Barnard Hewitt Award:
Virginia Scott, Women on the Stage in Early Modern France, 1540-1750. Cambridge UP, 2010.
Distinguished Scholar Award:
Bruce McConachie
Deadlines for 2012 awards run from March 1 to July 1, 2012. Please visit our Awards pages for more information and to apply. |
Announcements
| In Memoriam: Glenda Dickerson (1945-2012) |
by E.J. Westlake
Glenda Dickerson, director, writer, folklorist, educator, and actor, passed away on January 12, 2012 in her home in Ypsilanti, Michigan.
Born in Houston in 1945, Glenda was trained primarily as a director and was a prolific writer. Many knew Glenda's work: Re/membering Aunt Jemima: A Menstrual Show, co-written with Breena Clarke, and For My People, for which she won a Peabody Award. |
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| ASTR Announces 2012 Election Slate |
ASTR is pleased to announce the slate of nominees who will run for election in 2012. The slate of nominees has been approved by the ASTR Executive Committee. ASTR members will receive an e-mail invitation to vote on May 1, and voting will close on May 31.
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| 2012 Working Session Calls for Papers Now Online |
The American Society for Theatre Research 2012 Conference Program Co-Chairs, Patricia Ybarra and Patrick Anderson, are pleased to announce that the Calls for the ASTR 2012 Conference Working Sessions are now posted.
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Member News
| Sara Brady |
Sara Brady's new book, Performance, Politics and the War on Terror: 'Whatever It Takes' is out from Palgrave Macmillan. The book uses a performance studies lens to analyze a variety of events in order to tease out the ways in which meaning has been made in the contemporary global sociopolitical environment. By discussing events in such diverse contexts as conventional theatre, political protest, popular entertainments, military training exercises, performance art, and other sites of performance, the book offers a unique, interdisciplinary approach to the study of culture and politics. It argues that the reliance on performance by governments and media alike in post-9/11 United States and abroad - particularly in the context of the war on terror - led not only to a culture of fear, but also to a troubling blurring of fiction and reality. See http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=368847. |
| Victor Emeljanow and Gillian Arrighi |
Victor Emeljanow and Gillian Arrighi's article, “Entertaining children: an exploration of the business and politics of childhood,” has appeared in New Theatre Quarterly 28, no. 1 (February 2012): 41-55. Their edition of A World of Popular Entertainments containing 17 essays by prominent scholars worldwide will be published by Cambridge Scholars Press in April 2012. |
| Iris Smith Fischer |
Iris Smith Fischer's book Mabou Mines: Making Avant-Garde Theatre in the 1970s appeared in March 2011 from the University of Michigan Press. This is the first book on the pathbreaking theatre company founded by JoAnne Akalaitis, Lee Breuer, Philip Glass, Ruth Maleczech, and David Warrilow in 1970. Like much avant-garde performance of the 1970s, Mabou Mines' early pieces were seldom recorded or documented, a missing history that this book sets out to capture. A paperback edition of the book is planned for Fall 2012. |