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KENNESAW, Ga. | Nov 9, 2018

Dr. John Gentile, Professor of Performance Studies in Kennesaw State鈥檚 Department of Theatre and Performance Studies, will receive the National Communication Association鈥檚 Lilla A. Heston Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Interpretation and Performance Studies. NCA will present Gentile with the award during its 103rd annual convention in Dallas, Texas this November.

The Heston award, which recognizes excellence in published research and creative scholarship, comes on the basis of Gentile鈥檚 essay, 鈥淪hape-Shifter in the Green: Performing Sir Gawain and the Green Knight鈥� (published in Storytelling, Self, Society: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Storytelling Studies). 鈥淪hape-Shifter in the Green鈥︹�� builds on Gentile鈥檚 three decades of scholarship in arguing an inextricable link between the seemingly disparate tasks of performance and scholarship. To hear Gentile explain it, his goal is to illuminate the work of what he calls, the 鈥榮cholar-artist,鈥� thereby, 鈥渟how[ing] the work in scholarship that inevitably takes place behind the scenes in preparing a performance of a canonical text like Sir Gawain.鈥�

Gentile has always been attracted to what he refers to as, 鈥渕asterworks,鈥� those canonical texts that are ultimately handed down and rediscovered across the distance of centuries. As a result, much of his work as a scholar and artist has centered on the concept of adapting and staging canonical works like Sir Gawain, Moby-Dick, and The Scarlet Letter for contemporary audiences. 鈥淚 often wonder about the future of great works,鈥� Gentile explains. 鈥淚f they are not embedded in our education experience, when will people come upon them? And so I almost have a quest to 鈥榮alvage鈥� works from a sense of loss, whereby a work of true power and significance is reduced鈥� to contemporary students鈥� to only a title they may have heard of.鈥� According to Gentile, it is this task of cultural curation that ultimately necessitates a link between scholarship and performance. 鈥淎ssuming the artist creating the adaptation of a major literary text for the stage has done his or her work in analysis and in research,鈥� the professor explains, 鈥渁nd brings to it an effective vision, and makes it vital in the theatrical experience, then that performance can lead audiences back to the original text itself -- as readers, and that to me is the real benefit of doing the work I do.鈥�

Given Gentile鈥檚 track record of both penning and staging engaging performances of famous texts, and his impeccable ability to articulate the theory behind this process in his work, it鈥檚 no surprise that Emerson College鈥檚 John Dennis Anderson called him, 鈥渢he preeminent exemplar鈥� of the scholar artist [in the field of performance studies]鈥� in a nomination letter for the 2017 Lilla A. Heston Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Interpretation and Performance Studies.

Gentile鈥檚 celebrated scholarship and artistry will be on display on November 11, at the Jung Society of Atlanta鈥檚, 鈥淭he Green Knight and Other Stories of Magic and Transformation: A Storytelling Program with Music.鈥�

Keaton Lamle