Department of English

Dr. Sauer has been at Spring Hill College for thirty-five years, specializing in Drama. For twenty years he directed plays; for the last fifteen he has been a publishing scholar in the area. He teaches courses in Literature and Composition (Spring, 08 will feature the Slacker in 20^th century literature), Sophomore Drama Survey, American Drama, British Drama, Shakespeare, and Literary Theory.

President of the David Mamet Society since 2005, he has published with academic Librarian Janice Sauer: David Mamet: A Resource and Production Sourcebook (2000), and articles for Cambridge Companion series on Mamet and, to be published, August Wilson. He has just completed a book on Oleanna for Continuum, and has published articles in Shakespeare Quarterly, Shakespeare Yearbook, Teaching Shakespeare Through Performance (MLA), Modern Drama, American Drama, and Restoration and Eighteenth Century Theatre Research, as well as numerous pieces for The David Mamet Review.

Recently he has been working on a book on American Drama of the 1920s and 1930s in comparison to contemporary postmodern drama, as well as sketching out a study of David Mamet’s Plays. Most recently he spoke at the Dallas Theater Center on Glengarry Glen Ross, and has given papers at the MLA as well as other venues around the country.

For the past ten years he has worked with the CCSA on Study Abroad, Directing programs in London, Scotland, and Ireland. This summer he will offer a course in London on Contemporary Drama in Performance.