Allison kay Deutermann

Books

Deutermann, A. k. (2025). Celebrity Characters. Philadelphia, PA, University of Pennsylvania Press.

Deutermann, A., Hunter, M., & Gurnis, M. (2021). Publicity and the Early Modern Stage: People Made Public. New York, NY, Palgrave Macmillan .

Deutermann, A. (2016). Listening for Theatrical Form in Early Modern England. Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press.

Deutermann, A., & Kisery, A. (2013). Formal Matters: Reading the Materials of English Renaissance Literature. Manchester, Manchester University Press.

Journal Articles

(2025). "The Persons of the Play: Falstaff and the Thickening of Dramatic Character". PMLA, 140(1). 391-405.

Deutermann, A. k. (2024). “Uncertainty and Understanding in the Early Modern English Theater” [Review Essay on the field of audience studies]. Modern Language Quarterly (MLQ), 85(1). 79-93.

(2024). "Taking Time to Breathe: The Formal Atmospherics of Early Modern Drama". ELR (English Literary Renaissance), 54(2). 157-78.

Deutermann, A. k., & Brown, P. (2023). "Introduction: Early Modern Affective Ecologies". Renaissance Drama, 51(2). 151-58.

Deutermann, A. (2017). "Taverns, Theaters, Publics: The Intertheatrical Politics of Caroline Drama". Renaissance Drama, 45(2). 237-256.

(2011). "'Caviare to the general'? Taste, Hearing, and Genre in Hamlet". Shakespeare Quarterly, 62(2). 230-255.

(2010). ''Dining on Two Dishes': Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Auditory Reception of Purcell's The Fairy-Queen. Upstart Crow: "Shakespearean Hearing," Special Issue, ed. Leslie Dunn and Wesley Folkerth , 29(1). 57-71.

Book Chapters

Deutermann, A. (2021). "Othello’s Strange Celebrity: Race and Publicity in Early Modern Drama". In Deutermann, A., Hunter, M., & Gurnis, M. (Eds.), Publicity and the Early Modern Stage: People Made Public (pp. 25-44). New York, NY. Palgrave Macmillan.

Deutermann, A. K., & Hunter, M. (2021). "Introduction". Publicity and the Early Modern Stage: People Made Public (pp. 1-22). New York, NY. Palgrave Macmillan.

(2016). "The Matter of Form". In Brayman Hackel, H., Lander, J., & Lesser, Z. (Eds.), The Book in History, the Book as History (pp. 29-64). New Haven, CT. Yale University Press.

Deutermann, A. (2015). "Literary Celebrity and Theater Culture in Shirley’s Bird in a Cage". In Arab, R., Dowd, M., & Zucker, A. (Eds.), Historical Affects and the Early Modern Theater (pp. 54-68). New York and London. Routledge.

Deutermann, A. (2013). "Hearing Iago's Withheld Confession". In Craik, K., & Pollard, T. (Eds.), Shakespearean Sensations: Experiencing Literature in Early Modern England (pp. 46-63). Cambridge. Cambridge University Press.

Deutermann, A. (2010). 'Repeat to me the words of the Echo': Listening to The Tempest. In Raman, S., & Gallagher, L. (Eds.), Knowing Shakespeare: Senses, Embodiment, and Cognition (pp. 293-323). New York. Palgrave Macmillan.

"Character at Scale". Early Modern Scale: Form, Technology, and Embodiment In Progress.

Presentations

Deutermann, A. k. (2026, April 2). Performing Repetition (Seminar Organizer and Leader). Shakespeare Association of America. In Progress.

Deutermann, A. k. Falstaffing. Peter Cummings Memorial Shakespeare Lecture. : Hobart William Smith College. In Progress.

Deutermann, A. k. Early Modern Scale. Renaissance Society of America Conference (Roundtable, Invited Speaker)

Deutermann, A. k. A Pair So Famous: Repetition, Fame, and the Making of Dramatic Character in Antony and Cleopatra (Personation Seminar). Shakespeare Association of America Conference.

Deutermann, A. k. "Pompey, Played Out." . : CUNY Graduate Center Friday Forum.

Deutermann, A. k. The Persons of the Play. "Publics, Bodies, Speech: Drama in the Early Modern Mediascape" (Panel, Shakespeare Association of America Conference)

Deutermann, A. k. Shakespeare's Affective Ecologies. Sensing the Truth (Research Group). Israel Institute for Advanced Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (ZOOM)

Deutermann, A. k. The Falstaff Effect. Columbia University Shakespeare Seminar (Annual Gloria and Bernard Beckerman Lecture)

Deutermann, A. k. Early Modern Affective Ecologies: Air and Atmosphere. MLA Conference (Panel Organizer and Participant)

Deutermann, A. k. Affective Ecologies. Shakespeare Association of America Conference (Seminar Organizer and Leader)

Deutermann, A. (2020, December 31). Race and Character. Short Scripts Seminar. : Shakespeare Association of America.

Deutermann, A. (2019, December 31). "Extravagant and Wheeling characters". Shakespeare and Form. : Shakespeare Association of America.

Deutermann, A. k. Crafting Race and Early Modern Subfields. The Rifkind Center and the Phi Beta Kappa Chapter of City College, CUNY (Panelist, Invited)

Deutermann, A. (2017, April 30). Celebrity Shakespeare (Seminar Organizer and Leader). Shakespeare Association of America.

Deutermann, A. (2016, April 30). Joint Labors: Actor-Audience-Playwright Collaborations in Early Modern English Theater. Renaissance Society of America.

Deutermann, A. (2016, March 13). Heavy Lies the Head. Heavy Lies the Head. : Baruch Performing Arts Center.

Deutermann, A. (2016, April 30). The Senses of Early English Form. Renaissance Society of America.

Deutermann, A. (2016, April 30). Shakespeare's Climatology. Renaissance Society of America.

Deutermann, A. (2016, December 31). Breathing Room. Staging Atmospheres Conference, University of London (Invited Speaker)

Deutermann, A. (2016, April 30). Breathing Room: Listening for the Dramatic Pause in 3 Henry VI. Renaissance Society of America.

Deutermann, A. (2015, February 28). Hearing Women. Society for the Study of Renaissance Women, CUNY (Invited Speaker)

Deutermann, A. (2015, February 28). "How to Hear 'the fatal screech-owl: Resilient Listening in 3 Henry VI". : Touching Shakespeare: Proximity, Precarity, and Resilience in Early Modern Drama and Modern Life. UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (Lecture, Invited).

Deutermann, A. (2014, April 30). Rules of Playing and Theatrical Culture in Early Modern England. Shakespeare Association of America.

Deutermann, A. (2014, April 30). Dead Ends and Fresh Starts. Renaissance Society of America.

Deutermann, A. (2013, April 30). "'All clear behind the arras?': Eavesdropping at the Cockpit Theater. Shakespeare Association of America.

Deutermann, A. k. Henry IV, Part 2. Public conversation with author Ron Rosenbaum and Michael Sexton (Director, Public Shakespeare Initiative, the Public Theater), Pearl Theatre Company

Deutermann, A. (2012, April 30). Chair, "Going Public: Women Actor-Players and the Act of Writing". Renaissance Society of America.

Deutermann, A. (2012, April 14). Talk-Back (with Director Arin Arbus). The Duke Theater: Theatre for a New Audience production of William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew.

Deutermann, A. (2012, April 30). Chair and Respondent, "Theorizing 'Form' in Early Modern Drama". Renaissance Society of America.

Deutermann, A. (2011, July 31). Hearing Shakespeare. Scholarly Sustenance Program. : Huntington Library Society of Fellows.

Deutermann, A. (2011, October 31). Is it Words that Shake Us Thus? Revenge, Confession, and Weaponized Words in Othello. Othello Colloquium. Fairleigh Dickinson University

Deutermann, A. (2011, February 28). Multi-Media Adaptation. Performing the Book Conference. : Rutgers University.

Deutermann, A. (2011, April 30). Tis true, 'tis true, witness my knife's sharp point': Weaponized Words and the Making of Theatrical Form in Early Modern England. Shakespeare Association of America Conference.

Deutermann, A. (2010, April 30). So, Who Do You Think You're Talking to? The Fat Knight Speaks. : Baruch College.

Deutermann, A. (2010, July 31). Polyphony, Print, and 1590s Theater. Society for Renaissance Studies Conference. University of York, England

Deutermann, A. (2009, December 31). Repeat to me the words of the Echo. Columbia University: Columbia University Shakespeare Seminar.

Deutermann, A. (2009, April 30). Polyphonic Print. Five Colleges Renaissance Seminar. University of Massachusetts: Center for Renaissance Studies.

Deutermann, A. (2008, April 30). Forms of Early Modern Writing. Forms of Early Modern Writing Conference. Conference co-organizer: Columbia University.

Deutermann, A. (2008, April 30). Reading in vtopia: The Dering Library. Shakespeare Association of America Conference.

Deutermann, A. (2008, November 30). Ben Johnson's Polyphonic Printing. Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies Conference.

Deutermann, A. (2007, March 31). Dissecting Renaissance Anatomies. Renaissance Society of America Conference, Co-organizer and co-chair.

Deutermann, A. (2007, April 30). Learning to Listen to Early Modern Drama. : Shakespeare Association of America Conference.

Deutermann, A. (2005, November 30). The Discerning Ear: Listening for Distinction in Early Modern Drama. : Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies Conference.

Deutermann, A. (2005, April 30). Listening Up. Shakespeare Association of America Conference.

Other Scholarly Works

Reviews

Deutermann, A. k. (1970,January 1). Book Review of Chloe Preedy, Aerial Environments on the Early Modern Stage. Modern Philology.

Deutermann, A. k. (1970,January 1). Book review of Jeffrey S. Doty, Shakespeare, Popularity, and the Public Sphere. Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England.

Deutermann, A. (1970,January 1). Book Review of Hamlet's Moment, by Andras Kisery . Shakespeare Quarterly.

Deutermann, A. (1970,January 1). Book review of Staging the Blazon in Early Modern English Theater, ed. Deborah Uman and Sara Morrison. Renaissance Quarterly.

Deutermann, A. (1970,January 1). Book review of Early Modern Theatricality, ed. Henry S. Turner. Theatre Survey.

Deutermann, A. (1970,January 1). Book review of Ben Jonson and Envy, by Lynn S. Meskill. Renaissance Quarterly .