Deborah Fisk

Associate Professor
Department of Literature

• An expert in dramatic literature and theatre history, Professor Fisk has published extensively on 17th and 18th-century drama and performance, writing on topics ranging from the Restoration actress to baroque opera. Currently she is completing a book entitled Patronage, Production, and Print: The Restoration Playwright in the Marketplace. In 2005 Professor Fisk published Four Restoration Libertine Plays (OUP), and in 2000 The Cambridge Companion to English Restoration Theatre (CUP). Professor Fisk also does dramaturgical work for theatre companies in Washington, including the Shakespeare Theatre Company, Arena Stage, and Studio Theatre. Teaching interests include Restoration and 18th-century drama; Modern Drama; Shakespeare in Performance; and Ancient Greek and Roman Theatre, in addition to special topics, such as Theatre and Censorship.
  
  Professor Fisk has held research fellowships at the Huntington Library; the Folger Library; the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library; and UCLA. From 2002-2005 she was awarded an Exemplary Project Grant from the NEH, held in conjunction with the Shakespeare Theatre Company. In 1993 she was given the University Teaching Award.

• Degrees

  PhD, University of California, Los Angeles
  MA, English, University of California Los Angeles
  BA (Honors), English and Theatre, Loyola Marymount University