The Albert Wertheim Fellowship, at present an $18,000 grant awarded annually to a student writing a dissertation in Drama and Performance Studies, and the annual Albert Wertheim Essay Prize of $500 are named to celebrate the long and illustrious career of Albert Wertheim, who taught at Indiana University from 1969 until the time of his death in 2003.
After graduating with his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1965, Professor Wertheim taught at Princeton University before moving to Indiana in 1969. His dissertation at Yale concerned seventeenth-century British drama, and as his career evolved his research interests expanded to include English-language drama from America, Britain, Australia, and especially South Africa. The subjects of his published articles encompass virtually the entire canon of Western drama and theatre: from articles on Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, and James Shirley from the Renaissance stage to essays on Bertolt Brecht, Arthur Miller, Eugene O’Neill, William Inge, and many others from the modern stage. He is perhaps best known for two books: The Dramatic Art of Athol Fugard: From South Africa to the World (2000) and Staging the War: American Drama and World War II (published posthumously, 2004).
Both gifts are made possible through the generosity of the Wertheim family and Professor Wertheim’s many friends and former colleagues. The Fellowship is the gift of Ted Widlanski and Martha Jacobs, close friends of Professor Wertheim.
All graduate students in the English department working on projects in drama, theatre history, and performance studies are eligible to apply for both awards.
PREVIOUS RECIPIENTS OF THE ALBERT WERTHEIM FELLOWSHIP
Patrick Maley
2008-2009
Jill Wood
2007-2008
PREVIOUS RECIPIENTS OF THE ALBERT WERTHEIM ESSAY PRIZE
Christopher Hirst
2008
Kristen Renzi
2007
Martin Sorge
2006
Melissa Jones
2005 |
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