David DeRose  |  Interests  |  Scholarship  

Education:

• PhD, MA, Dramatic Art: Directing and Dramatic Criticism, The University of California at Berkeley, 1985
• BA English Literature, Stanford University, 1978
  With Distinction

Teaching Experience:

• Professor, English and Drama - Saint Mary's College, Moraga, CA (2000 - Present)
  * Associate Professor, 1997-2000. * Visiting Lecturer, 1994-1997.
• Producer - New Plays Festival, MFA Creative Writing Program, Saint Mary's College (1999 - 2000)
• Interim Director - MFA Creative Writing Program, Saint Mary's College (1999 - 2000)
• Interim Director - Composition Program, Saint Mary's College, (1998 - 1999)
• Visiting Professor, Dramatic Art - The University of California, Berkeley (1996 - 1997)
• Graduate Advisor - PhD Program in Dramatic Art, U.C. Berkeley (1996 - 1997)
• Visiting Lecturer, Drama and Liberal Art - California State University, Sacramento. (1995)
• Visiting Professor, Graduate Liberal Studies and English. - Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT (1993 - 1994)
• Lecturer - The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, Waterford, CT. (1988 - 1991)
  National Theater Institute.
• Assistant Professor, Theater Studies and English - Yale University, New Haven, CT (1985 - 1993)
• Director - Theater Studies Program, Yale University (1985 - 1993)

Professional Experience:

• Board of Directors - Playwrights Foundation, San Francisco (2003 - Present)

Award:

• Council on Educational Development Grant University of California - (1981)

Fellowships:

• University of California Regents Fellowship - (1981)
• University of California Regents Fellowship - (1979)

Honor:

• Highest Departmental Honors in English Literature - Stanford University (1978)
  upon graduation

Presentations:

Selected Presentations

• “Antonin, Bertolt, and Titus: Julie Taymor’s Film Adaptation as Modernist Theatre.”. DeRose, David (paper)
  Popular Culture Association. Albuquerque
  (2002)
• "Joseph Chaikin and Aphasia's Idiom" (Presenter) & "Altered Selves/Altered Lives: Performing the Damaged Body."(Panel Chair). DeRose, David (talk, speech or lecture, panel or forum member)
  Association for Theatre in Higher Education. San Antonio
  (1998)
• Anna Deavere Smith: Constructing American Identity." (Pedagogical Workshop). DeRose, David (talk, speech or lecture)
  American Literature Association. San Diego
  (1996)
• "Staging the Traumatic Body: Performance Art as Trauma Narrative.". DeRose, David (talk, speech or lecture)
  Association for Theatre in Higher Education. San Francisco
  (1995)
• "King Lear: Shakespeare Script to Screen.". DeRose, David (talk, speech or lecture, invited)
  St. Mary's Alumni Association Saturday Seminars
  (1995)
• "Sam Shepard: Between the Margin and the Center." (Panel Chair). DeRose, David (panel or forum chair, moderator, or leader)
  International Sam Shepard Symposium. Brussels, Belgium
  (1993)
• "Red Cross: Artaud and the American Avant-Garde.". DeRose, David (talk, speech or lecture, invited)
  Department of Drama, Mt. Holyoke College
  (1993)
• "Cultural Pluralism and the Liberal Arts Theater Curriculum: A Redefinition.". DeRose, David (talk, speech or lecture)
  Association for Theatre in Higher Education. Atlanta
  (1992)
• "Appropriating the Nam: Viet Nam and America's Dramatic Subconscious.". DeRose, David (talk, speech or lecture)
  Popular Culture Association. Louisville
  (1992)
• "Politics and the Theatre: Current Trends in South Africa.". DeRose, David (talk, speech or lecture, invited)
  outh African Research Project. Yale University
  (1992)
• "Writing about Performance Texts: A Workshop for Teachers of Composition.". DeRose, David (talk, speech or lecture, invited)
  Yale Writing Program
  (1992)
• "Theatre of Trauma: Viet Nam Veterans, Drama Therapy, and Critical Misapprehension.". DeRose, David (talk, speech or lecture)
  Popular Culture Association. San Antonio
  (1991)
• "Decade of Greed: 80s Corporate Culture in American Film and Drama.". DeRose, David (talk, speech or lecture, invited)
  Yale Alumni Association. University of Tennessee, University of Connecticut, Davidson College
  (1990)
• "'U Can't Teach This:' Performance Art, Experimental Theatre, and the Dramatic Literature Course.". DeRose, David (talk, speech or lecture, invited)
  National Theatre Institute
  (1989)
• "Pinter and Mamet: Case Studies of Dialogue as Dramatic Action.". DeRose, David (talk, speech or lecture, invited)
  American-Soviet Theatre Initiative Exchange Program. National Theatre Institute
  (1989)
• "'But it isn't a book -- it's real:' Viet Nam on Film and Stage.". DeRose, David (talk, speech or lecture)
  Intertextuality: A Conference on Literary and Cinematic Representation. Florida State University
  (1988)
• "August Wilson: The Dramaturgy of the Blues.". DeRose, David (talk, speech or lecture, invited)
  International Playwrights Conference. National Theatre Institute
  (1988)
• "Theater Studies: An Interdisciplinary Approach.". DeRose, David (talk, speech or lecture, invited)
  Yale Alumni Association
  (1986)
• "Teaching Drama: The Written Text as Performance Text.". DeRose, David (talk, speech or lecture, invited)
  Faculty Symposium. Yale Dept. of English
  (1986)

Publications:

• DeRose, David. (2003). “Anthems, Community, and the Therapeutic Stage,”. Production Essay for Culture Clash’s Anthems..
• DeRose, David. (2002). “Desert Pilgrims.”. Performance Journal.
• DeRose, David. 2000. Alternate Tracks: Sam Shepard as Musical Experimenter., he Cambridge Companion to Sam Shepard. Ed. by Matthew Roudane
• DeRose, David. (1998). 'Indian Country': Sam Shepard and the Cultural Other. Sam Shepard: Between the Margin and the Center. Ed. by Johan Callens. Special Issue. In Contemporary Theatre Review.
• DeRose, David. October 1996. Cherrie Moraga: Mapping Aztlan, American Theatre
• DeRose, David. November 1993. Zakes Mda: Redressing South Africa's Past., American Theatre
• DeRose, David. 1993. The Hero's Journey. Production Notes for Marisol by Jose Rivera., Hartford Stage Company
• DeRose, David. (1992). Sam Shepard. New York: Macmillan/Twayne Publishers
• DeRose, David. 1992. John O'Neal: Do Start Him Talking, Don't Start Me to Talking or I'll Tell Everything I Know, Sayings freom the Life and Writings of Junebug Jabbo Jones
• DeRose, David. 1991. There's Some Guy at the Door: American Plays and Crazed Vet Syndrome, Viet Nam Generation
• DeRose, David. 1991. Navigating Shepard. Program Essay for Forensic and the Navigators by Sam Shepard., DOuble Image Theatre
• DeRose, David. 1990. A Dual Perpective:Vietnam War Film and Drama, Rediscovering America: Critical Essays on the Literature and Film of the Vietnam War
• DeRose, David. 1990. Heirs of Passion. Program Essay for Fool for Love by Sam Shepard., Teatro Aberto, Teatro Aberto
• DeRose, David. 1990. Woyzeck's Modern Heritage. Production Notes for Woyzeck by Georg Buechner, Hartford Stage Company
• DeRose, David. 1989. Soldados Razos: Issues of Race in Vietnam War Drama, Viet Nam Generation
• DeRose, David. 1988. A Visitor with Intent Program Essay for National Anthems by Dennis McIntyre, Long Wharf Theatre
• DeRose, David. 1987. Early Shepard. Program Essay for 4-H Club by Sam Shepard, Gaijin Exchnage
• DeRose, David. 1986. Slouching Towards Broadway: Shepard's A Lie of the Mind.
• DeRose, David. 1983. Lore of the Trickster Coyote. Program Essay for Coyote Ugly by Lynn Siefert, Berkeley Stage Co