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Martha C. Carpentier, Ph.D. Fordham University, 1988 Professor, Department of English E-mail: carpenmr@shu.edu
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Ritual, Myth, and the Modernist Text: The Influence of Jane Ellen Harrison
on Joyce, Eliot, and Woolf.
Amsterdam: Gordon and Breach Publishers, 1998.
“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 Glaspell’s Inheritors directed by Cheryl Black.
“Broader Contexts for Teaching Susan
Glaspell,” Roundtable discussion at the American Drama Conference, St. Francis
College,

“Susan Glaspell’s
“‘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,
“The Malicious Bite: Katherine
Mansfield’s Satiric Method” at the 35th Annual Louisville Conference
on Literature and Culture since 1900,
The Deracinated Self: Immigrants and
Orphans in Susan Glaspell’s Fiction,” at the American Literature Association
17th Annual Conference,
“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,




“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