The Milton Society of America has named William Shullenberger's Lady in the Labyrinth: Milton's "Comus" as Initiation (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2008) as co-winner of the James Holly Hanford award for the best book on Milton for 2008. The award was given on December 28 at the 2009 conference of the Modern Language Association in Philadelphia. Congratulations are in order!
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press is pleased and proud to announce that Geoffrey S. Proehl's Toward a Dramaturgical Sensibility: Landscape and Journey, published in 2008, has won the Outstanding Book Award given annually by the Association for Theatre in Higher Education. Geoff Proehl received his award at the ATHE annual conference at the Astor Ballroom of the New York Marriott Marquis Hotel on August 10.
Toward a Dramaturgical Sensibility, a work of theatrical collaboration between the author and such theatrical luminaries as DD Kugler, Mark Lamos, and Michael Lupu, deals with the process of getting to know the dramaturgy of a play (not much different, the author maintains, than getting to know another person) through collaboration, conversation, and the perspectives of landscape and journey. The volume ends with a case study of the 2002 production of Antony and Cleopatra at the Guthrie Theater, directed by Mark Lamos and starring Laila Robbins, Robert Cuccioli, and Stephen Yoakum.We are proud to have published this innovative study, and happy that it has received the recognition it deserves.
Geoffrey Proehl is also author of Coming Home Again: American Family Drama and the Figure of the Prodigal (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1997), among other books and essays. We offer Geoff our warmest congratulations on his awards and accomplishments.
Other awards received recentlyby FDU Press include:
The National Huguenot Society 2008 Book Award to A Huguenot on the Hackensack: David Demarest and His Legacy. This award recognizes the best scholarly work on the Huguenots published in 2007.
Carol Sotiropolous's book Early Feminists and the Education Debates was cited by CHOICE magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book for 2008.
Philip Hanson's This Side of Despair: How the Movies and American Life Intersected During the Great Depression was selected by CHOICE Magazine as one of its Outstanding Academic Titles for 2008. Fewer than 10% of books reviewed this year were selected for this honor.
Shakespeare Studiesalert:
The current issue of Shakespeare Studies--Volume XXXVI--features another of the journal's forums, this one on "The Return of the Author," organized by Patrick Cheney. Contributors considering the issue of authorship in the postmodern milieu are Lukas Erne, David Scott Kastan, JeffreyKnapp, Wendy Wall, Richard Wilson, Heather James, Leah S. Marcus, BrianVickers, Richard Dutton, and Michael D. Bristol.
Author - Geoffrey S. Proehl with DD Kugler, Mark Lamos, and Michael Lupu Publication Date - October 2008 ISBN #9780838641125 Price $52.50 - Price subject to change
