The Adaptation ECR Prize
About the ECR Prize
From 2021, the Adaptation ECR Prize will be awarded retrospectively to the best article published by an early career researcher (defined as anyone who is currently registered for, or has completed within ten years of the closing date, a postgraduate degree (either MA or PhD) on any subject within adaptation studies) in each yearly volume of the journal. The winner’s prize will consist of a year’s online subscription to Adaptation and a two year position on the Adaptation editorial board.
The ECR Prize was launched in 2011 to encourage the best new scholarship in the field. While the journal publishes many articles which focus on the relationship between literature and film, the Editors are particularly keen to publish work which challenges the primacy of that relationship: this might include essays on computer games, opera, popular music, animation, genre fiction or work with a wider theoretical sweep. The competition aims to publish research by new researchers which contributes to the expansion of the field and which will help launch future careers in adaptation studies research.
The decision of the judges will be final, and no correspondence will be entered into by the Editors. No alternative prizes will be available. In the unlikely event that, in the judges’ opinion, the material submitted is not of a suitable standard, no prize or prizes will be awarded.
Previous Winners
2023
The Brick-Built Sea: Adapting the Odyssey in LEGO
by Justin Muchnick
2022
Towards an Ecocritical Adaptation Studies
by Robert Geal
2021
2019
Adaptation in Iranian New Wave Cinema: Social Commentary in Dariush Mehrjui's The Cow (1969)
by Mazda Moradabbasi Fouladi
2018
Bric[k]olage: Adaptation as Play in The Lego Movie (2014)
by Madeleine Hunter
2017
A ‘Game of Patience’: Fidelity and Grant Gee’s Patience (After Sebald) (2012)
by Alexis Brown
2016
Transmedia Adaptation, or the Kinesthetics of Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World
by Lida Zeitlin Wu
2014
Adapting Coriolanus: Tom Hiddleston's Body and Action Cinema
by Anna Blackwell
2013
Towards an Adaptation Network
by Kyle Meikle
2012
Pasolini's Splendid Infidelities: Un/Faithful Film Versions of The Thousand and One Nights
by Michael Lundell
2011
Franchising/Adaptation
by Clare Parody
