Martha C. Carpentier, Ph.D. 
Fordham University, 1988                                
                 

Professor, Department of English
Seton Hall University
South Orange, NJ 07079

E-mail: carpenmr@shu.edu

Vice-president and webmaster,
The Susan Glaspell Society

http://academic.shu.edu/glaspell


Books

“Apollonian Form and Dionysian Excess in Susan Glaspell's Generic Intertextuality,” in Disclosing Intertextualities: The Stories, Plays, and Novels of Susan Glaspell. Eds. Martha Carpentier and Barbara Ozieblo. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2006.

Susan Glaspell: New Directions in Critical Inquiry. Ed. Martha C. Carpentier. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2006.

The Major Novels of Susan Glaspell. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2001.

Ritual, Myth, and the Modernist Text: The Influence of Jane Ellen Harrison on Joyce, Eliot, and Woolf. Amsterdam: Gordon and Breach Publishers, 1998.


 Articles

“The Deracinated Self: Immigrants, Orphans, and the ‘Migratory Consciousness’ of Willa Cather and Susan Glaspell.” Studies in American Fiction Vol. 35 No. 2 (Autumn 2007): 131-158.

“Fidelity.” The Literary Encyclopedia. 22 Jan. 2008. The Literary Dictionary Company. 22 January 2008. http://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=15991

“Brook Evans.” The Literary Encyclopedia. 1 Oct. 2006. The Literary Dictionary Company. 9 January 2007. http://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=16006

“Fugitive's Return.” The Literary Encyclopedia. 26 Oct. 2006. The Literary Dictionary Company. 9 January 2007. http://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=1600

“Oedipal Conflict Through Mythical Allusion in T.S. Eliot’s ‘Sweeney Erect,’” Yeats Eliot Review Vol. 14, No. 3 (Winter 1997): 26-33.

“Why An Old Shoe? Teaching Jacob’s Room as L’ecriture feminine,” RE: Reading, RE: Writing, RE: Teaching Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers from the Fourth Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf.  Eds. Eileen Barrett and Patricia Cramer.  NY: Pace University Press, 1995.  142-148.

“Susan Glaspell’s Fiction: Fidelity as American Romance,” Twentieth Century Literature Vol. 40, No. 1 (Spring 1994): 92-113.

“Jane Ellen Harrison and the Ritual Theory,” Journal of Ritual Studies Vol. 8, No. 1 (Winter 1994): 11-26.

“Eleusinian Archetype and Ritual in ‘Eumaeus’ and ‘Ithaca,’” The James Joyce Quarterly Vol. 28, No. 1 (Fall 1990): 221-238.

“Orestes in the Drawing Room: Aeschylean Parallels in T.S. Eliot’s Family Reunion,” Twentieth Century Literature Vol. 35, No. 1 (Spring 1989): 17-42.

Conference Presentations and Panels

Challenging Generic Boundaries: Susan Glaspell's Self-Adaptations," session organized and chaired at the American Literature Association 20th Annual Conference, Boston, May 22, 2009.  Read part of Grandma Morton in Glaspells Inheritors directed by Cheryl Black.

“Broader Contexts for Teaching Susan Glaspell,” Roundtable discussion at the American Drama Conference, St. Francis College, Brooklyn, November 7-9, 2008. 

“Susan Glaspell’s Greece: the people, the place, and the past,” at The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey Hellenic Studies Symposium, Delphi Greece, June 24-26, 2008.

“‘Getting at things in terms of the preposterous’:
The Satiric Grotesque in Susan Glaspell’s World War I-Era Stories,” at the American Literature Association 18th Annual Conference,
Boston MA, May 24-27, 2007.

“The Malicious Bite: Katherine Mansfield’s Satiric Method” at the 35th Annual Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900, Louisville KY, February 22-24, 2007.

The Deracinated Self: Immigrants and Orphans in Susan Glaspell’s Fiction,” at the American Literature Association 17th Annual Conference, San Francisco CA, May 26, 2006.

“Teaching Brook Evans to Graduates and Undergraduates in Courses on Women Writers,” Roundtable at the Society for the Study of American Women Writers Third International Conference, Philadelphia PA, November 8-11, 2006.  Also chaired panel, “Susan Glaspell and Modernism” and read part of Mother in Glaspells Chains of Dew, directed by Cheryl Black.

 

 

 

 

 

 


Brook Evans, the Canon, and Feminist Theory,”
pre-show presentation by invitation at opening-night performance of “Intimations from the Brook,” directed by Mike Solomonson at Northland
Pioneer College, Snowflake AZ, April 22, 2006.


“Susan Glaspell and the Two Americas,” post-show presentation by invitation at performance of “Inheritors,” Metropolitan Playhouse, 220 East Fourth St., New York NY, November 13, 2005.

 

 

 

 

 

Four Decades of Fiction at the Forefront: Susan Glaspell's Critique of American Ideology, session organized and chaired at the American Literature Association 16th Annual Conference on American Literature, Thursday, May 26 2005, Boston, MA.

 New Approaches to Susan Glaspell's Theatre, session chaired, the Eugene O'Neill Society's 6th International Conference, Saturday, June 17, 2005, Provincetown, MA. 

From left to right, back to front: Linda Ben-Zvi, Judith Barlow, Cheryl Black, Marcia Noe, Patricia Bryan, J. Ellen Gainor, Lucia Sander, Sharon Friedman, Basia Ozieblo, Sally Heckel, Steven Bloom, Martha Carpentier, Zander Brietzke.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 

Courses

Undergraduate: 

ENGL 2102, Great Books of the Western Tradition II
ENGL 2112, British Literature II
ENGL 2204, Introduction to Literary Studies
ENGL 3217, Modern British Literature
ENGL 3314, W.B. Yeats and the Celtic Revival
ENGL 3416, The British Novel II
ENGL 3418, The Drama in Great Britain II
ENGL 3431 Seminar: Women Writers
ENGL 5011 Senior Seminar

New Courses coming!  Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group;
James Joyce's Ulysses

Graduate: 

ENGL 6126, Major British Writers: 1900-1945
ENGL 6127, Major British Writers from 1945
ENGL 6317, Feminist Critical Theory
ENGL 7011, Studies in Criticism
ENGL 7017, Seminar in 20th Century British Literature
ENGL 7020, Special Topics Seminar

These grad students (left to right: Junique Annulysse, John Noonan, Elizabeth Canada, and Ted McCulloch) just completed Professor Carpentier's ENGL 7011 Studies in Critical Theory course . . . and they survived!