Name: Dr. Leonard Mustazza
Rank: Distinguished Professor of English and American Studies
Office address: 418 Sutherland
Phone Number: 215-881-7331
E-mail: lxm7@psu.edu
Iinstitution(s) where degrees were earned:
*Ph.D. (English), The State University of New York at Stony Brook
*M.A. (English), Herbert H. Lehman College of the City University of New York
*B.A. (English), Herbert H. Lehman College of the City University of New York
Names and numbers of courses taught:
AM ST 105: Popular Culture and Folklife--Popular Film and Literature INART 110: The Dramatic Arts in the Mass Media--Recent American History on Film ENGL 268: Reading Drama ENGL 400: Authors, Texts & Contexts (Kurt Vonnegut) ENGL 401: Studies in Genre (Utopias and Dystopias; Tragedy) ENGL 402: Literature and Society (Visions of Justice)
Short description of any research interests :
American Popular Culture (especially, Film and Literature)
Publications:
BOOKS
"Such Prompt Eloquence": Language as Agency and Character in Milton's Epics . Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press; London and Toronto: Associated University Presses, 1988.
Forever Pursuing Genesis: The Myth of Eden in the Novels of Kurt Vonnegut . Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press; London and Toronto: Associated University Presses, 1990.
The Critical Response to Kurt Vonnegut . Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1994.
(with Steven Petkov) The Frank Sinatra Reader . New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
(with Vicki Abt) Coming After Oprah: Cultural Fallout in the Age of the TV Talk Show . Bowling Green, OH: The Popular Press, 1997
Ol' Blue Eyes: A Frank Sinatra Encyclopedia . Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1998.
Frank Sinatra and Popular Culture: Essays on an American Icon . Westport, CT: Praeger, 1998.
Frank Sinatra: An Annotated Bibliography, 1939-1998 . Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1999.
The Literary Filmography: 6,200 Adaptations of Books, Short Stories and Other Nondramatic Works. Jefferson, NC: McFarland Publishers, 2006.
BOOK CHAPTERS
"Gender and Justice in Susan Glaspell's 'A Jury of Her Peers.'" In Law and Semiotics , vol. 2. Ed. Roberta Kevelson. New York: Plenum Press, 1989: 271-76.
" Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You ." In Masterplots II: Drama Series . Ed. Frank N. Magill. 4 Vols. Los Robles, CA: Salem Press, 1990: 1471-76.
"The Red Death's Sway: Character and Setting in Poe's 'The Masque of the Red Death' and King's The Shining ." In The Shining Reader: A Collection of Essays . Ed. Anthony Magistrale. Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House, 1990: 105-20.
"John Erskine." In Dictionary of Literary Biography: American Short Story Writers, 1910-1946 . Second Series. Ed. Bobby Ellen Kimbel. Detroit: Gale, 1991: 69-74.
"Fear and Pity: Tragic Horror in Pet Sematary ." In The Dark Descent: Essays Defining Stephen King's Horrorscape . Ed. Anthony Magistrale. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1992: 73-82.
"Repaying Service with Pain: The Role of God in The Stand ." In A Casebook on "The Stand." Ed. Anthony Magistrale. Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House, 1992: 89-108.
"Poe's 'The Masque of the Red Death and King's The Shining : Echo, Influence, and Deviation." In Discovering Stephen King's "The Shining." Ed. Tony Magistrale. San Bernardino, CA: The Borgo Press, 1998: 62-73, 123-24.
"Frank Sinatra." In American National Biography . American Council of Learned Societies/Oxford University Press, 2000.
"Frank Sinatra and Civil Rights." In Frank Sinatra: History, Identity, and Italian-American Culture . Ed. Stanislao Pugliese. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004: 33-45.
"Johnny Hartman." In African American National Biography . Ed. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Evelyn Higginbotham. Harvard University/Oxford University Press, 2006.
ARTICLES
"Language as Weapon in Milton's Paradise Regained ." Milton Studies , 18 (1983): 195-216.
"Language as Poison, Plague, and Weapon in Shakespeare's Hamlet and Othello. " Pennsylvania English , 11 (Spring 1985): 5-14.
"Women's 'Roles' in Sam Shepard's Buried Child. " Literature in Performance , 5 (April 1985): 36-41.
"Herbert's 'The Forerunners.'" The Explicator , 44 (Spring 1986): 21-23.
"Vonnegut's Tralfamadore and Milton's Eden." Essays in Literature , 13 (Fall 1986): 299-312.
"To Hear New Utterance Flow: Human Language Before the Fall in Milton's Paradise Lost ." CLA Journal , 30 (December 1986): 184-209.
"Meaning in an Interposed Scene: Paradise Lost 5. 711-42." Milton Quarterly , 21 (March 1987): 11-14.
"The Verbal Plot of Samson Agonistes. " Milton Studies , 23 (1987): 241-58.
"Shakespeare's Measure for Measure. " The Explicator , 47 (Fall 1988): 2-4.
"Myth and History in Russell Hoban's Riddley Walker ." Critique: Studies in Contemporary Literature , 31 (Fall 1989): 17-26.
"The Machine Within: Mechanization, Human Discontent, and the Genre of Vonnegut's Player Piano. " Papers on Language and Literature , 25 (Winter 1989): 99-113.
"'In the Old Style': The Tragic Vision in Sam Shepard's The Tooth of Crime. " Text and Performance Quarterly , 9 (October 1989): 277-85.
"Generic Translation and Thematic Shift in Susan Glaspell's 'Trifles' and 'A Jury of Her Peers.'" Studies in Short Fiction , 26 (Fall 1989): 489-96. (Reprinted in Ann and Samuel Charters' Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry and Drama . Boston: Bedford, 1997: pp. 2002-2009.)
"Thomas Deloney's Jacke of Newbury : A Horatio Alger Story for the Sixteenth Century." Journal of Popular Culture , 23 (Winter 1989): 165-77.
"A Darwinian Eden: Myth and Science in Kurt Vonnegut's Galapagos ." Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts , 3, no. 2 (1991): 55-65.
"A Jealous God: Ritual and Judgment in Shaffer's Equus ." Papers on Language and Literature , 28 (Spring 1992): 174-84.
"The Limits of Narcissism: Self and Society in Tom Wolfe's The Bonfire of the Vanities ." Popular Culture Review , 3, no. 2 (1992): 3-18.
"The Power of Symbols and the Failure of Virtue." Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts , 3, no. 4 (1994): 107-19.
"Seeing Red: A Sinatra Scholar Comments on the FBI's Political Probe into Ol'Blue Eyes." APB News . http://www.apbonline.com , 11 December 1998.
REVIEWS
Rev. of Sanity Plea: Schizophrenia in the Novels of Kurt Vonnegut , by Lawrence R. Broer. Journal of Popular Culture , 26 (Fall 1992): 177-78.
Rev. of Critical Essays on Kurt Vonnegut , by Robert Merrill. Journal of Popular Culture , 28 (Fall 1994): 224-25.
"Hoboken's Other Legend?." APB News . http://www.apbonline.com , 1 March 1999.
Rev. of The Vonnegut Effect by Jerome Klinkowitz. South Atlantic Review , 2006.
