Martha C. Carpentier, Ph.D.                                                    Professor, Department of English Seton Hall University South Orange, NJ 07079 Tel. (973) 761-9000 x5101 Fax (73) 761-9596 E-mail carpenmr@shu.edu

Experience

2003-present   Professor of English, Seton Hall University
1999-2004       Chair, Department of English, Seton Hall University
1997-1999        Graduate Advisor, Department of English, Seton Hall University
1995-2002       Associate Professor of English, Seton Hall University
1989-1994        Assistant Professor of English, Seton Hall University
1988-1989        Instructor in English, Hofstra University

2003-present   Vice-President and webmaster, The Susan Glaspell Society
http://academic.shu.edu/glaspell

Education

Ph.D., 1988: Fordham University.  Dissertation topic: "Mother, Maid, and Witch: Hellenic Female Archetypes in Modern British Literature.”  Dissertation Director: Philip Sicker.

M.A., 1979: Columbia University.  Honors thesis: "Elusive Friendship: Relationships Between Women in D.H. Lawrence's Women in Love."  Thesis Mentor: George Stade.

B.A., 1978: Barnard College.  Cum laude, Dean's List 1977-78. 

Publications

Books:

The Major Novels of Susan Glaspell. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2001.
    To read introduction and table of contents, click on "Scholarship" at http://artsci.shu.edu/english/carpenmr

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

Accepted for publication, 2005:

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

Articles and Chapters:

“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.

Papers Presented and Sessions Chaired:

“Four Decades of Fiction at the Forefront: Susan Glaspell's Critique of American Ideology,” session organized and chaired, 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. 

“Susan Glaspell and the Three-Act Novel,” presented at the American Literature Association 14^th Annual Conference on American Literature, May 22-25, 2003.

“A ‘Secret Burden’: Susan Glaspell’s Deconstruction of Marriage,” presented at the 31^st Annual Twentieth-Century Literature Conference, University of Louisville, February 27 – March 1, 2003. Also chaired session: “Susan Glaspell: Post-Provincetown.”

“Revisiting ‘Circe’: Mythic Origins of the Phallic Mother,” presented at the Fourth Annual Central New York Conference on Language and Literature, October 16-18, 1994.

“Why an old shoe:  Teaching Jacob’s Room as l’ecriture feminine,” presented at the Fourth Annual Virginia Woolf Conference, June 9-12, 1994

“Reloading the Canon:  Susan Glaspell’s Fidelity” presented at the Third Annual New York Conference on Language and Literature, October 17-19, 1993.

Service – College and University

Participant, Signature Course Workshops, Core Curriculum Committee, June 6-8, 2005
Chair, Educational Policy Committee, Fall 2002-present
Program Review Steering Committee, 2003-present
Human Relations Council – Learning Resources Subcommittee, 2004-present
African-American Studies Ad Hoc Committee, Spring 2005
First-Year Writing Assessment Committee, Fall 2004-present
Internal Reviewer for Honors Program, Fall 2005
Internal Reviewer for History Dept. Program Review, Spring 2004
Chair, two Interdisciplinary Hiring Committees, Spring 2003
Hiring Committee for Dean of Arts and Sciences, Spring 2002
Rank and Tenure Committee, 1998-2001
Dean’s Ad Hoc Committee on Release Time, 2000
African-American Studies Hiring Committee, 2000
College of Arts and Sciences Graduate Advisory Committee, 1998-1999
Educational Policy Committee, 1995-1998