Barbara Hodgdon Award Grant

The Barbara Hodgdon Award, presented by the Shakespeare Association of America (SAA), honors exceptional scholarship in the field of Shakespeare and Performance. Established in memory of Barbara Hodgdon, this award encourages innovative research across various media and time periods related to Shakespeare's work. Eligible submissions must be authored by SAA members and published two years prior to the award presentation. This recognition promotes new discussions and insights within the realm of Shakespearean performance studies.

Shakespeare Association of America
The Shakespeare Association of America (SAA) is a non-profit professional organization for the advanced academic study of William Shakespeare’s plays and poems, his cultural and theatrical contexts, and the many roles these have played in world culture.
Since its founding in 1972, the SAA has held annual conferences that convene in a different location each year, generally in late March or early April. SAA members meet to exchange ideas and strategies for reading, teaching, researching, and writing about topics of shared interest. Sessions at the meeting include seminars, workshops, panel presentations, round-table discussions, film screenings, theatrical performances, and teaching workshops.
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.
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 2026 would be awarded to an article that appeared in 2024).

Eligibility

All authors who submit work for consideration must be SAA members in good standing.Collaboratively authored submissions are welcome, but all authors are limited to one entry, which cannot be simultaneously considered for the Innovative Article Award
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