ANNIBEL JENKINS PRIZE IN PERFORMANCE & THEATER STUDIES

In 2012, SEASECS established a prize in honor of its founding member, Annibel Jenkins. This biennial prize of $500 recognizes the best article in performance and theater studies published in a scholarly journal, annual, or collection.

The Jenkins Prize will next be awarded at the 2025 SEASECS conference. Eligible publications for this award must have been published between September 1, 2022 and August 31, 2024. Authors must be members of SEASECS at the time of submission. Dues for the current 2024-25 year ($30) may be paid here. Articles may be submitted by the author or by another member.

The deadline for submissions is November 15, 2024. Please send your submission, as a PDF file, to Jane Wessel at wessel@usna.edu.

2022 Winner: Tracy C. Davis "Opera Fans: Female Stratagems and Social Power," Eighteenth-Century Studies, 55.4 (Summer 2022). 

2022 Honorable mention: Fiona Ritchie, "Anecdote and the Regional Actress: A History of the Farren Family in Several Anecdotes" in English Theatrical Anecdotes: 1660-1800 (University of Delaware Press, 2022), edited by Heather Ladd and Leslie Ritchie. 

2020 Winner: Jane Wessel, “‘My Other Folks’ Heads’: Reproducible Identities and Literary Property on the Eighteenth-Century Stage.” Eighteenth-Century Studies 55:2 (Winter 2020), 279-297.

2019 Winner: Leah Benedict, “Impotence Made Public: Reading Sex on the Stage and in the Courtroom,” ELH vol. 85, no. 2, Summer 2018: 441-69.

2018 Winner: Diana Solomon, “The Jolt of Jacobean Tragicomedy: Double Falsehood on the Eighteenth-Century English Stage.” In Revisiting Shakespeare’s Lost Play: Cardenio/Double Falsehood in the Eighteenth Century. Ed. Deborah C. Payne. Palgrave, 2016.

2017 Winner: Terry F. Robinson, "Becoming Somebody: Refashioning the Body Politic in Mary Robinson's Nobody." Studies in Romanticism 55 (Summer 2016), 143-84.

2016 Winner: Heather McPherson, “Tragic Pallor and Siddons.” Eighteenth-Century Studies 48.4 (Summer 2015), 479-502.

2015 Winner: Daniel J. Ennis, “Christopher Smart, Mary Midnight and the Haymarket, 1755,” in  Reading Christopher Smart in the 21st Century. Edited by Min Wild and Noel Chevalier. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2013.

2014 Winner: Anne Greenfield, "D'Avenant's Lady Macduff: Ideal Femininity and Subversive Politics." Restoration 37.1 (Spring 2013), 39-60.