Curriculum Vita Short Vita Sara Munson Deats 9049 Quail Creek Drive Tel. Office: 813-974-4595 Tel. Home: 813-973-3126 Present Position: Distinguished University Professor of English Co-Director, Center of Applied Humanities University of South Florida Education: UCLA Stanford U. UCLA

English English English

Ph.D. M.A. B.A,

1970 1968 1966

Publications:

Books:

Youth Suicide Prevention: Lessons from Literature. Eds. Sara Munson Deats and Lagretta Tallent Lenker. New York: Plenum Press, 1989. 238 pp. The Aching Hearth: Family Violence in Life and Literature. Eds. Sara Munson Deats and Lagretta Tallent Lenker. New York: Plenum Press, 1991. 296 pp. Gender and Academe: Feminist Politics and Pedagogy. Eds. Sara Munson Deats and Lagretta Tallent Lenker. New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 1994. 343 pp. Sex, Gender, and Desire in the Plays of Christopher Marlowe. Newark, N.J.: University of Delaware Press, 1997. 297 pp. Awarded the Roma Gill Award for Outstanding Contribution to Marlowe Studies for this book. Aging and Identity: A Humanities Perspective. Eds. Sara Munson Deats and Lagretta Tallent Lenker. Westport, Conn.: Praeger Press, 1999. 253 pp. 1

Marlowe’s Empery: Augmenting His Critical Contexts. Eds. Sara Munson Deats and Robert A. Logan. Newark, N.J.: University of Delaware Press. 2002. 210 pp. War and Words: Horrors and Hallelujahs. Eds. Sara Munson Deats and Lagretta Tallent Lenker. New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 2004. 353 pp. Antony and Cleopatra: New Critical Essays. Ed. Sara Munson Deats. New York: Routledge Press, 2005. 340 pp. Placing Christopher Marlowe’s Plays: Fresh Cultural Contexts Eds. Sara Munson Deats and Robert A. Logan. Ashgate Press, 2008. Doctor Faustus: A Critical Guide. Ed. Sara Munson Deats. Continuum Press, UK., 2010.

Chapters in Books:

“Marlowe’s Fearful Symmetry in Edward II.” In “A Poet and a filthy playmaker”: New Essays on Christopher Marlowe. Eds. Kenneth Friedenreich, Roma Gill, and Constance B. Kuriyama. New York: AMS Press, 1988. pp. 241-62. “The Conspiracy of Silence in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.” In Youth Suicide Prevention: Lessons from Literature. Eds. Sara Munson Deats and Lagretta Tallent Lenker. New York: Plenum Press, 1989. pp. 71-92. Conclusion to Youth Suicide Prevention: Lessons from Literature, 1989. pp. 105-109. “From Pedestal to Ditch: Violence Against Women in Shakespeare’s Othello.” In The Aching Hearth. Eds. Sara Munson Deats and Lagretta Tallent Lenker. New York: Plenum Press, 1991. pp. 79-94. Reprinted in Shakespearean Criticism, ed. Michelle Lee. Detroit: Gale Research, 1998. pp. 31-39. Introduction to The Aching Hearth, 1991. pp. 1-22. Co-authored with Lagretta Tallent Lenker. “From Prospectus to Print: Editing Conference Papers and Publishing the Dissertation.” In Writing and Publishing for Academic Authors. Ed. Joseph Moxley. New York: University Press of America, 1992. pp. 133-46. Reprinted in Writing and Publishing for Academic Authors. Eds. Joseph Moxley and Todd Taylor. 2nd edition. New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 1996. pp. 127-40.

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“Navigating in a Brave New World: Teaching Feminist Literary Criticism.” In Gender and Academe. Eds. Sara Munson Deats and Lagretta Tallent Lenker. New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 1994. pp. 123-33. Introduction to Gender and Academe, 1994. pp. xv-xxvii. Co-authored with Lagretta Tallent Lenker. “Transgressions of Sex, Gender, and Desire in Marlowe’s Dido Queene of Carthage.” In Marlowe: History and Sexuality. Eds. Paul Whitfield White. New York: AMS Press, 1998. pp. 163-78. “The Dialectic of Aging in King Lear and The Tempest.” In Aging and Identity: A Humanities Perspective. Eds. Sara Munson Deats and Lagretta Tallent Lenker. Westport, Conn.: Praeger Press, 1999. pp. 23-32. Introduction to Aging and Identity: A Humanities Perpsective, 1999. pp. 1-20. Coauthored with Lagretta Tallent Lenker. “Teaching Romeo and Juliet from the Perspective of Youth Suicide and the Generation Gap.” In Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Ed. Maurice Hunt. New York: MLA Publications, 2000. pp. 108-114. “ ‘O such an obedient lady’: Desdemona, Emilia, and the Doctrine of Obedience in Othello.” In Othello: New Critical Essays. Ed. Philip Kolin. New York: Routledge. 2001. pp 233-54. “Marlowe’s Interrogative Dramas: Dido Queene of Carthage, Tamburlaine the Great, Doctor Faustus, and Edward II.” In Marlowe’s Empery: Expanding His Critical Contexts. Eds. Sara Munson Deats and Robert A. Logan. Newark: University of Delaware Press,2002. pp. 107-32. “ ‘So neatly plotted and so well performed’: Villain as Playwright in Marlowe’s Jew of Malta.” In Marlowe: New Casebooks. Ed. Avraham Oz. New York: Palgrave, 2003. 116-32. “The Errant Barbarian and the Lady Never Bold: Racist and Sexist Categories in Othello.” In Shakespeare, Women, and Violence. Eds. Linda Woodbridge and Sharon Beehler. Tempe: Arizona: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2003. 189-217. “Dido Queene of Carthage and The Massacre at Paris.” In The Marlowe Companion. Ed. Patrick Cheney. Cambridge: University Press, 2004. 193-206. Introduction to War and Words: Horror and Heroism in the Literature of Warfare. New York: Rowman and Littlefield Press, 2004. 1-15. Co-authored with Lagretta Lenker and Merry G. Perry. “Henry V at War: Christian King or Scheming Machiavel.” In War and Words. New York: Rowman and Littlefield Press, 2004. 83-103. 3

“Shakespeare’s Anamorphic Drama: A Survey of Antony and Cleopatra in Criticism, on Stage, and on Screen.” In Antony and Cleopatra: New Critical Essays. New York: Ed. Sara Munson Deats. Routledge, 2005. 1-93. “Doctor Faustus: From Chapbook to Tragedy.” In Doctor Faustus: A Norton Critical Edition. Ed. David Scott Kastan. New York: W.W. Norton and Co., 2005, 209225. Reprinted from Essays in Literature, 1976. “Shakespeare and Sexuality.” In Encyclopedia of Erotic Literature, Ed. Gaeton Brulotte. New York: Routledge 2006. “ ‘What means this show’: Magic and Theater in Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus.” In Placing Christopher Marlowe’s Plays: Fresh Cultural Contexts. Ashgate Press,2008). 1324. “Introduction” to Placing Christopher Marlowe’s Plays: Fresh Cultural Contexts.” Ashgate Press, 2008. 1-12. “Introduction” to Doctor Faustus: A Critical Guide. Ed. Sara Munson Deats. Continuum Press, UK, 2010. 1-12.

Articles in Refereed Journals:

“The Disarming of the Knight: Comic Parody in Lyly’s Endymion,” South Atlantic Bulletin 40 (1975): 67-77. “Doctor Faustus: From Chapbook to Tragedy.” Essays in Literature 3 (1976): 3-15. Reprinted in Doctor Faustus. Ed. John Scott Kasten, New York: W. W. Norton, 2005. “Myth and Metamorphosis in Marlowe’s Edward II.” Texas Studies in Literature and Language 22 (1980): 304-22. “Biblical Allusion in Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus.” Medievalia and Humanistica n.s. 10 (1981): 203-16. “Edward II: A Study in Androgyny.” Ball State University Forum 22:1 (1981): 30-41. “Hamlet, the Dane.” The Explicator 39:3 (1981): 31-32. “Volpone and the Mock Nativity.” The Explicator 39:3 (1981): 32-33. “The Once and Future Kings: Four Studies in Kingship in Hamlet.” Essays in Literature 9 (1982): 15-30. 4

“Romeo and Juliet: Shakespeare for the Sixties.” Studies in Popular Culture 6 (1983): 60-70. Awarded the Gerald Whatley Award for Excellence in Popular Culture for this essay. “Roma Gill and Marlowe,” Marlowe Society of America Newsletter 5 (1985): 3. “Polansky’s Macbeth: A Contemporary Tragedy.” Studies in Popular Culture 9 (1986): 84-94. “Biblical Allusion in Marlowe’s The Jew of Malta: A Reconsideration.” Christianity and Literature 37:2 (1988): 27-50. “The Dialectic of Gender in Four of Marlowe’s Plays.” University of Hartford Studies in Language and Literature 20:1 (1988): 27-50. “Virgil, Ovid, and Christopher Marlowe’s Dido Queene of Carthage.” Humanitas 15:2 (1991): 42-60. “ ‘So neatly plotted and so well performed’: Villain as Playwright in Marlowe’s The Jew of Malta.” Theatre Journal 44 (1992): 175-89. Co-authored with Lisa Starks. “Rabbits and Ducks: Olivier, Branagh, and Henry V.” Literature/Film Quarterly 20 (1992): 284-93. “The Problem of Aging in King Lear and The Tempest.” Journal of Aging and Identity, 1 (1996): 87-98. “Gender Studies in Christopher Marlowe;s Plays: the Last Forty Years.” Marlowe Society of America Newsletter 29:1 (Fall 2009): 4-7.

I have also published numerous book and theatre reviews and have delivered over 100 papers at professional conferences and conventions.

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