Lisa Starks-Estes, PhD

Lisa S. Starks-Estes is an associate professor of English at University of South Florida St. Petersburg. Since earning her Ph.D. from University of South Florida in 1992, Starks has presented papers, published articles, and edited volumes on various topics related to violence in Shakespeare, Renaissance literature, psychoanalysis, and film. She has published articles in journals such as Shakespeare Quarterly, Shakespearean International Shakespeare Yearbook, Early Modern Literary Studies, Literature and Psychology, and Theatre Journal; and in book collections such as Antony and Cleopatra: New Critical Essays (Routledge, 2005), Performing Transversally (Palgrave, 2003), Shakespeare and Appropriation (Routledge, 1999), and Marlowe, History, and Sexuality (AMS, 1998), among others. She has guest edited two special issues of Post Script on Shakespeare and film, entitled Adaptations (1997) and Derivatives and Variations (1998); and she has co-edited (with Courtney Lehmann) two books, entitled Spectacular Shakespeare: Critical Theory and Popular Cinema (FDU/AUP, 2002) and The Reel Shakespeare: Alternative Cinema and Theory (FDU/AUP, 2002). Currently, Starks is working on a book dealing with Ovid, sexuality, and “lovesickness” in Shakespeare, tentatively titled Transforming Trauma: Violence, Vulnerability, and Virtu in Shakespeare’s Roman Poems and Plays.

Education

Ph.D. in English--University of South Florida, 12/92
Dissertation: Identity as Performance: Shakespeare's English History Plays and the Construction of the Gendered Subject. Defended 10/92. Passed Doctoral Exams with Distinction, 6/90

M.A. in English--University of South Florida, 12/87
Thesis: "Barabas, Iago, and Volpone: The Villain as Playwright in Renaissance Drama." Passed M.A. Exam with Distinction, 3/87.

B.A. in English, with Honors--California State University, Fullerton, 1/84

Diploma, with honors--Interlochen Arts Academy, 6/78

Teaching and Research Interests

Shakespeare, Early Modern British Literature, Critical Theory, Cinema Studies

Recent Publications

Articles

“That’s Amores!: Latin Love and Love Sickness in Shakespeare’s Venus and Adonis.” Shakespearean International Yearbook 7 (2007): 75-91.

"'Immortal Longings': The Erotics of Death in Shakespeare's Antony and
Cleopatra," in Antony and Cleopatra: New Critical Essays, ed. Sara Munson
Deats, Routledge, 2005.

"'Remember me': Psychoanalysis, Cinema, and the Crisis of Modernity."
Shakespeare Quarterly 53.2 (2002): 181-200.

Books

Spectacular Shakespeare: Critical Theory and Popular Cinema, co-edited with
Courtney Lehmann, Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2002.

The Reel Shakespeare: Alternative Cinema and Theory co-edited with Courtney
Lehmann, Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2002.

Work-in-Progress
Transforming Trauma: Violence, Vulnerability, and Virtu in Shakespeare’s Roman Poems and Plays.