Alexa Huang awarded the 2010 Scaglione Prize
from the Modern Language Association

Chinese Shakespeares cited as a landmark book 
 

 


 

Alexa Huang, a Research Affiliate in the School's Literature section, and Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Penn State has won the 2010 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies for Chinese Shakespeares (Columbia University Press, 2009).

[2014 update: Alexa Huang is currently Professor of English at George Washington University, where she also serves as Co-director of the Digital Humanities Institute, Director of the Dean's Scholars in Shakespeare, and Director of Graduate Studies.]

Huang, who is also the co-founder and co-editor, with Peter Donaldson, Ford Foundation Professor of Humanities at MIT, of two open-access digital video archives, Global Shakespeares in Performance, and Shakespeare Performance in Asiawill be participating in the School's Global Shakespeare curriculum initiative.  

The Scaglione Award, given by the Modern Language Association, recognizes outstanding scholarly work in the field of comparative literature. The MLA's citation for Huang's book reads:

Alexa Huang's Chinese Shakespeares: Two Centuries of Cultural Exchange maps new territory for the most promising project in comparative literature today. Huang's object is the movement of cultural forms across geographical space, but she regards such movement not as mere diffusion or even as exchange. Instead she examines the way movement across geographical and geopolitical fault lines reaches into cultural forms and changes their meanings from the inside, often revealing possibilities that had lain dormant, unnoticed, or submerged in the texts' cultures of origin. Remarkable not only for its sophistication but also for its scholarly depth, Chinese Shakespeares is a landmark in the renewal of comparative literature as a discipline.

Chinese Shakespeares
 has also received Honorable Mention for the Joe A. Callaway Prize for the Best Book on Drama or Theatre. Professor Huang is the general editor of The Shakespearean International Yearbook and the vice president of the Association for Asian Performance. She co-edited Shakespeare and the Ethics of Appropriation and Class, Boundary, and Social Discourse in the Renaissance.
 


Suggested Links 

Alexa Huang website | George Washington University

Imagining China: The View from Europe, 1550-1700 
An exhibition at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C.,
for which Alexa Huang was the video curator