August 7-9, 2023

Southern Utah University - Utah Shakespeare Festival

The 2023 Wooden O Symposium invites panel and paper proposals on any topic relating to Shakespeare and his plays:

Literary Analysis & Theoretical Approaches

Shakespeare and Adaptation

Shakespeare on Screen

Shakespeare in Performance

Shakespeare and History, Culture, and Society

Shakespeare and Rhetoric

Shakespeare and his Contemporaries

Shakespeare and the Arts

We encourage papers and presentations that speak to the Utah Shakespeare Festival’s 2023 summer season: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Coriolanus, and Timon of Athens, as well as the Romeo and Juliet inspired, West Side Story. 

This year’s meeting will be face-to-face with 1-2 panels reserved for virtual participants.

The deadline for proposals is March 15, 2023. Session chairs and individual authors will be informed of acceptance no later than May 1. Please include a 250-word abstracts or session proposal (including individual abstracts) and the following information.

For more information, please contact the conference co-organizers, Scott Knowles at scottknowles@suu.edu or Jessica Tvordi at tvordi@suu.edu