New Scholars Essay Prize Competition 2020
- New Scholars Essay Prize Competition 2020
The Society for Theatre Research is delighted to announce the results of the 2020 New Scholars Essay competition
joint first prizes were awarded to:
David Bullen
'Dionysus the New Woman: Maenadic and Feminist Intersections in Lillah McCarthy's 1908 Bacchae'
Yizhou Huang
'The Birth of Widow Twankey'
Annette Rubery
'Peg Woffington as Lothario in The Fair Penitent'.
The competition was open to postgraduate students, academics with an institutional affiliation, and independent scholars, but not undergraduates. Entrance was restricted to scholars who have had no more than one article previously published in a refereed journal. Entrants did not need to be members of the STR or to reside in the UK.
The essays were judged double-blind by Professor Siobhan Keenan and Professor Jane Milling chaired by Professor Trevor R Griffiths. The prizes include a cash element, a one-year subscription to the STR, a selection of STR books and the guarantee that the essay will be considered for inclusion by Theatre Notebook under its normal guidelines. [End Page 140]
David Bullen has a PhD from Royal Holloway, University of London, where he has taught in the Department of Drama, Theatre, and Dance since 2013. Currently he is writing a monograph, Greek Tragedy in 21st Century British Theatre, for Liverpool University Press. He has served as co-artistic director of London-based performance ensemble By Jove since 2011.
Yizhou Huang is a PhD candidate in theatre at Tufts University.
Annette Rubery is an independent scholar with a PhD in English and Comparative Literary Studies from the University of Warwick (1999). An Alumni Communications Manager at Aston University, she is writing a biography of Peg Woffington during evenings and weekends.
