Noémie Ndiaye Earns Prestigious Scholarly Awards for Book: "Scripts of Blackness"
In a remarkable display of academic excellence, Noémie Ndiaye, an Associate Professor specializing in Renaissance and Early Modern English Literature, has been recently honored with prestigious awards for her book, "Scripts of Blackness: Early Modern Performance Culture and the Making of Race."
Ndiaye's outstanding accomplishments have been recognized with the following awards:
2023 Bevington Award (Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society): Awarded the best new book in early drama studies.
2023 Rose Mary Crawshay Prize (The British Academy): Recognized for her historical or critical work on any subject connected with literature written by a woman.
2023 Shakespeare’s Globe Book Award (Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre): Acknowledged for her outstanding contribution to our understanding and appreciation of the world of Shakespeare and his contemporaries.
2022 George Freedley Memorial Award (Theatre Library Association): Recognized for her exemplary work in the field of live performance.
"Scripts of Blackness: Early Modern Performance Culture and the Making of Race" shows how the early modern mass media of theatre and performance culture at-large helped turn blackness into a racial category, that is, into a type of difference justifying emerging social hierarchies and power relations in a new world order driven by colonialism and capitalism.
Ndiaye's achievements serve as an inspiration to scholars and researchers worldwide. Congratulations to Noémie Ndiaye on this exceptional recognition.