The Mariangela Tempera Award - update 2023
(European Shakespeare Research Association / Cahiers Élisabéthains)
The Mariangela Tempera Award is a biennial prize to be awarded to an essay of critical excellence on Shakespeare and/or his contemporaries and the moving image. The essay may focus on film or television, but also on creations generated and circulated in and through all kinds of new media in the digital era. The Mariangela Tempera Award is designed for early-career researchers who already are or intend to be members of ESRA, the European Shakespeare Research Association.
The submissions have to:
- focus on Shakespeare and/or his contemporaries on screen(s): this covers all aspects of the burgeoning field of Shakespeare and reappropriations, Shakespearean reconfigurations, adaptations, trans-mediations, re-mediations;
- be written by early stage researchers (i.e. a maximum of ten years after the completion of their PhD);
- be written by a member of ESRA: to become a member (free of charge) of the European Shakespeare Research Association (ESRA), send an e-mail with the subject ‘Membership Request’, including your name and affiliation to europeanshakespeare@gmail.com
- be sent before 1 September 2024 via the following platform, mentioning that the author is applying for the Mariangela Tempera Award: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/cahe
The winning essays are published in Cahiers Élisabéthains: A Journal of English Renaissance Studies. The author is also offered a one-year subscription to the journal and a £100 book voucher (courtesy of SAGE Publications Ltd.), and benefits from a fee waiver for the next ESRA conference.
Prize-winners have so far been:
Michelle Assay for her article ‘“The Rumble of Continuing Life”: Kozintsev’s Hamlet and its distorted reception’ - Cahiers Élisabéthains 104 (April 2021): 3–22.
https://doi.org/10.1177/0184767820981095
Delilah Bermudez Brataas for her article ‘The Shadow’s Shadow, or Gendered Ambition in Svend Gade and Asta Nielsen’s 1921 Hamlet’ - Cahiers Élisabéthains 98 (April 2019): 3–21.
https://doi.org/10.1177/0184767818813001
Mariangela Tempera (1948-2015) was a distinguished Italian scholar of English Studies with a particularly active and productive interest in Shakespeare. This interest manifested itself in a broad range of projects and publications, many with a specialised focus on the transformations of Shakespeare’s texts in other cultures and other media. Mariangela’s media interest culminated in the creation of the largest European research collection of Shakespeare in audiovisual formats, a project realised within the framework of the Shakespeare Centre that she founded at the University of Ferrara. Mariangela Tempera died in late 2015 at the age of 67. Her intelligence, energy and humour will be sorely missed by many colleagues and friends worldwide in an area of study that continues to expand. With the Mariangela Tempera Award, the European Shakespeare Research Association (ESRA) and Cahiers Élisabéthains pay tribute to the groundbreaking work that this remarkable scholar devoted to Shakespeare on screen, and seek to encourage further research in this field of research.
Do not hesitate to contact the Cahiers Élisabéthains and ESRA teams for further guidelines.
Cahiers Élisabéthains contact: cahiers@univ-montp3.fr
ESRA contact: amcimitile@unior.it
