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 should:
focus on Shakespeare and/or his contemporaries on screen(s): this covers all aspects of the burgeoning field of Shakespeare and re-appropriations, Shakespearean re-configurations, 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 ESRA, send an email with the subject ‘Membership Request’, including your name and affiliation to europeanshakespeare@gmail.com
be sent before 1 September 2024 via the Cahiers Élisabéthains platform, mentioning that the author is applying for the Mariangela Tempera Award: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/cahe
The winning essay will be published in Cahiers Élisabéthains. The author will also be offered a one-year subscription to the journal and a £100 book voucher (courtesy of SAGE Publications Ltd.), and will benefit from a fee waiver for the next ESRA conference in 2025.
Past prize winners have included:
Michelle Assay, ‘“The rumble of continuing life”: Kozintsev's Hamlet and its distorted reception’ – Cahiers Élisabéthains 104(1), 2021, pp. 3–22.
https://doi.org/10.1177/0184767820981095
Delilah Bermudez Brataas, ‘The shadow's shadow, or gendered ambition in Svend Gade and Asta Nielsen's 1921 Hamlet’ – Cahiers Élisabéthains 98(1), 2019, pp. 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 died in late 2015 at the age of 67. Her intelligence, energy, and humour is sorely missed by many colleagues and friends worldwide in an area of study that continues to expand. With the Mariangela Tempera Award, 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.
Please do not hesitate to contact the Cahiers Élisabéthains and ESRA teams for further guidelines.
Cahiers Élisabéthains contact: cahiers@univ-montp3.fr
Website: https://journals.sagepub.com/home/cae
ESRA contact: amcimitile@unior.it
Website: https://www.um.es/fr/web/esra/
