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Duke Pesta
Assistant Professor
PhD, Purdue University
Areas of Interest & Expertise
- Shakespeare
- Renaissance Drama
- Renaissance Literature
- Spenser
- The History of Medicine
- The History of the Science of Human Dissection
- The Bible as Literature
- Dostoevsky and Russian Literature
Recent Upper Division and Graduate Courses Taught
Graduate Seminar:
- Shakespeare and the Human Body
- Spenser, Donne and Renaissance Humanism
Upper Division Undergraduate Courses:
- Shakespeare
- Elizabethan and Jacobean Revenge Tragedy
- The Bible as Literature
- Chaucer
- Dostoevsky, God, and the Devil
- Classical Mythology
Selected Publications
Book (Edited):
Lord Byron . In Bloom's Bio Critiques
Series of Important Authors. Series ed. Harold Bloom. (
New York: Chelsea House Publishers, February, 2004).
Articles:
"Articulating Skeletons: Hamlet, Hoffman and the Anatomical Graveyard." Cahiers Elisabethains (Spring 2006).
"'This Rough Magic I Here Abjure': Shakespeare's The Tempest and the Fairy-Tale Body." The Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts (Volume 15, No. 1, Spring 2004) 49-60.
"Redressing Crossdressed Shakespeare." Academic Questions: The Journal of the National Association of Scholars (Vol. 16, No. 3, Late Summer 2003) 49-66.
"Darkness Visible: Byron and the Romantic Anti-Hero." In Lord Byron ( New York: Chelsea House Publishers, February 2004) 59-84.
Honors & Offices
- Associate Editor, Milton Quarterly
- Recipient, 2005-2006 Interfraternity and Panhellenic Council Outstanding Faculty Award for Arts and Sciences
- Recipient, 2004 Student Government Association Outstanding Teacher Award
- Member, Executive Board of Directors, The Marlowe Society of America
- Editor, Marlowe Society of America Book Reviews
Recent Grants & Research Trips
- Recipient, 2006 Oklahoma Humanities Council Grant
- Recipient, 2006 Oklahoma State University Department of English Travel Program II Grant
- Recipient, 2005 Arts and Sciences Research Travel Grant
- Recipient, 2005 Dean's Incentive Grant
- Recipient, 2004 Oklahoma Humanities Council Grant
- Recipient, 2004 Dean's Incentive Grant
Recent Conference Presentations
"Creation and Desecration in Columbo's De Re Anatomica and Shakespeare's King Lear," Shakespeare Association of America International Convention, Philadelphia, PA, April 2006.
"Marlowe's Doctor Faustus and the Anatomy Lesson of Doctor John Banister," Shakespeare Association of America International Convention, Bermuda, April 2005.
"'Where the Philosopher ends, the Physician Begins': Marlowe's Doctor Faustus and the Practice of Human Dissection," Shakespeare Association of America International Convention, New Orleans, LA, April 2004.
Current Research & Projects
"'My Well-Known Body to Anatomize': Shakespeare and the Drama of Dissection," a book manuscript examining the plays of Shakespeare in connection with the burgeoning study of human dissection. This interdisciplinary study incorporates Shakespearean drama, early-modern configurations of the body, the history of medicine and science, and Elizabethan popular culture. Due in large part to the advances of continental anatomists like Andreas Vesalius, English medical institutions in the sixteenth century underwent a rapid program of modernization. Human dissection became the foundation of these newly transformed institutions. By the middle of the sixteenth century, dissections had become so popular that anatomical theaters were constructed for the public performance of anatomies. It is my thesis that these public performances of the dissected body had profound consequences for the Elizabethan dramatic theaters in general, and for Shakespeare in particular.
English Department
College of Arts & Sciences
Oklahoma State University
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Stillwater, OK 74078
Phone: 405-744-9474
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