Chair Shane Vogel Received 2023 Oscar G. Brockett Essay Prize

Congratulations to TDPS Chair, Shane Vogel, Professor of English and African American Studies, who received the 2023 Oscar G. Brockett Essay Prize from the American Society for Theater Research for his essay “Waiting for Godot and the Theater of the Absurd,” published in PMLA, 2022.

The Oscar G. Brockett Essay Prize is jointly awarded by the American Society for Theatre Research and the Oscar G. Brockett Center for Theatre History and Criticism at the University of Texas-Austin. The prize recognizes the best essay written and published in English in a refereed scholarly journal or volume published by a scholarly press and relating to any subject in theatre research, broadly construed.