Honorable Mention - ATHE Outstanding Article Award
2022
“Infelicities” received the honorable mention for Outstanding Article. From the podium, awards committee chair Michelle Liu Carriger said: Aaron C. Thomas’s article “Infelicities” traces the branching uses of the word “performative” across many strands of performance studies, resulting in a new essential text. One committee member noted that this was the article that had already changed their teaching and thinking, and another called it the “most deft complication of the bad object-good object, real/fake, performance/theatre binary since, and probably including, the original texts.”