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Study of Brazilian Theater and AIDS wins Steinberg Book Prize
Tentative Transgressions: Homosexuality, AIDS, and the Theater in Brazil, authored by Severino J. Albuquerque, has won the 2008 Elizabeth A. Steinberg Prize for a book that has brought great distinction to the University of Wisconsin Press. In even-numbered years, the prize goes to a University of Wisconsin System author and in odd-numbered years to a book by a Wisconsin resident on a Wisconsin topic.
Thirty-nine books by authors from UW–Madison, UW–Extension, and UW–Milwaukee were eligible for the prize this year. Judges for this year’s award were José Lanters, professor of English at UW–Milwaukee; Arthur McEvoy, professor of law, history, and environmental studies at UW-Madison; and Elizabeth Steinberg, retired editor-in-chief of the University of Wisconsin Press.
Severino Albuquerque is professor of Portuguese at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and past director of the Latin American, Caribbean, and Iberian Studies program. He was the recipient of a 2002 Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award at UW–Madison and co-edits the journal Luso-Brazilian Review, also published by the University of Wisconsin Press.
Tentative Transgressions had already been awarded the premier prize of the Brazilian Studies Association, the Roberto Reis Book Award. In the book, Albuquerque follows changing theatrical motifs in Brazil through the twentieth century, showing how theater served as a vehicle to challenge dominant ideas about gender and otherness in a patriarchal culture. Theater could increasingly express ideas that would otherwise be censured or silenced. The Latin American Research Review called it “a meticulously researched book . . . not to be missed by those interested in gender and cultural studies.” Theatre Journal noted that “Albuquerque’s ambitious project . . .rewrite[s] twentieth-century Brazilian theatre history.”
In a 2004 Wisconsin Week article, Albuquerque commented, “The plays [in Brazil were] moving away, if ever so slowly, from shyly showing homosexuality as a transgression to . . . contributing to an acceptance . . . that gay-themed plays can have the same universality of drama as plays by and about heterosexuals.”
The Steinberg Prize is named for Elizabeth A. Steinberg, the retired editor-in-chief of the University of Wisconsin Press who worked there nearly forty years. In 1999, Mrs. Steinberg was awarded the University of Wisconsin Regents’ Award for Excellence and Outstanding Service in recognition of her extraordinary contributions to the Press, the University, and the scholarly publishing community.
Works Eligible for the 2008 Steinberg Prize
Eligible this year are books published in 2003, 2004, or 2005 by a University of Wisconsin System author. The following eligible books and authors were honored at the award ceremony.
Severino J. Albuquerque (Madison)
Tentative Transgressions: Homosexuality, AIDS, and the Theater in Brazil
Emily Auerbach (Madison)
Searching for Jane Austen
Sally Banes (Madison)
Reinventing Dance in the 1960s: Everything Was Possible
Djuna Barnes, Selected and edited by Phillip Herring (Madison) and Osías Stutman
Collected Poems, With Notes Toward the Memoirs
Michael Bernard-Donals (Madison) and Richard Gleiser
Witnessing the Disaster: Essays on Representation and the Holocaust
Ksenija Bilbija, Jo Ellen Fair, Cynthia E. Milton, and Leigh A. Payne (Madison)
The Art of Truth-Telling about Authoritarian Rule
Rachel Brenner (Madison)
Inextricably Bonded: Israeli Arab and Jewish Writers Re-Visioning Culture
Mary Carpenter with Quentin Carpenter (Madison)
The Dane County Farmers’ Market
Edward E. Daub (Madison) and Shiro Asano
Reflections on Science by NAKAYA Ukichiro: An Advanced Japanese Reader
James L. Davis (Madison)
Intermediate Technical Japanese, Volume 1: Readings and Grammatical Patterns and Volume 2: Glossary
Nancy L. Diekelmann (Madison)
Teaching the Practitioners of Care: New Pedagogies for the Health Professions
Christopher A. Faraone and Laura K. McClure (Madison)
Prostitutes and Courtesans in the Ancient World
Michael Feldman (Extension, Wisconsin Public Radio)
Something I Said? Innuendo and Out the Other
Marc Galanter (Madison)
Lowering the Bar: Lawyer Jokes and Legal Culture
Robert Grilley (Madison)
Return from Berlin: The Eye of a Navigator
David Henige (Madison)
Historical Evidence and Argument
Pamela M. Ironside (Madison)
Beyond Method: Philosophical Conversations in Healthcare Research and Scholarship
Raphael Kadushin (Madison)
Barnstorm: Contemporary Wisconsin Fiction
Raphael Kadushin (Madison)
Wonderlands: Good Gay Travel Writing
Daniel Lee Kleinman (Madison)
Impure Cultures: University Biology at the Millennium
Daniel Lee Kleinman, Abby J. Kinchy, and Jo Handelsman (Madison)
Controversies in Science and Technology, Volume 1: From Maize to Menopause
Judith Deutsch Kornblatt (Madison)
Doubly Chosen: Jewish Identity, the Soviet Intelligentsia, and the Russian Orthodox Church
Yair Mazor (Milwaukee)
The Poetry of Asher Reich: Portrait of a Hebrew Poet
Richard Merelman (Madison)
Pluralism at Yale: The Culture of Political Science in America
Clifford H. Mortimer (Milwaukee)
Lake Michigan in Motion: Responses of an Inland Sea to Weather, Earth-Spin, and Human Activities
Martin Nystrand (Madison) and John Duffy
Towards a Rhetoric of Everyday Life: New Directions in Research on Writing, Text, and Discourse
Stanley G. Payne, David J. Sorkin, and John S. Tortorice (Madison)
What History Tells: George L. Mosse and the Culture of Modern Europe
Velcheru Narayana Rao (Madison)
Hibiscus on the Lake: Twentieth-Century Telugu Poetry from India
Walter B. Rideout (Madison)
Sherwood Anderson: A Writer in America, Volume 1
Gary Rosenshield (Madison)
Pushkin and the Genres of Madness: The Masterpieces of 1833
Gary Rosenshield (Madison)
Western Law, Russian Justice: Dostoevsky, the Jury Trial, and the Law
Harold Scheub (Madison)
African Tales
Jonathan Wyn Schofer (Madison)
The Making of a Sage: A Study in Rabbinic Ethics
Franz Schubert and Wilhelm Muller, Photographs by Katrin Talbot; with Paul Rowe (Madison), baritone, and Martha Fischer (Madison), piano (CD)
Schubert’s Winterreise: A Winter Journey in Poetry, Image, and Song
Ruth Schwertfeger (Milwaukee)
The Wee Wild One: Stories of Belfast and Beyond
Robin Shepard (Madison and UW-Extension)
The Best Breweries and Brewpubs of Illinois
Julien Clinton Sprott (Madison)
Physics Demonstrations: A Sourcebook for Teachers of Physics
Jan Vansina (Madison)
Antecedents to Modern Rwanda: The Nyiginya Kingdom
Joseph Wiesenfarth (Madison)
Ford Madox Ford and the Regiment of Women: Violet Hunt, Jean Rhys, Stella Bowen, Janice Biala
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