Curriculum Vitae of Susan Hollis Merritt

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Bibliographical Editor, The Pinter Review

SUSAN HOLLIS MERRITT, PhD

Bibliographical Editor
The Pinter Review

EDUCATION

Wellesley College, HERS Institute for Women in Higher Education Administration, Certificate

University of Virginia, NEH Summer Seminar for College Teachers (Theory and Criticism)

Indiana University Bloomington, MA and PhD in English Language and Literature (Minor in Criticism: School of Letters)

University of Wisconsin–Madison, BA with Honors (General Honors Program; English major)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Consultant, Harold Pinter Archive, Modern Literary and Theatrical Archives and Manuscripts (English and Drama), The British Library, 2008–present

Independent Scholar and Consultant, 2000–present

Fulbright Senior Scholar, Theatre Institute, Prague; Research Associate, Charles University, Prague, Spring 1997

Associate Professor of English/Theatre Arts, Marist College, 1996–2000 (On leave: Spring 1997)

Visiting Fellow, Cornell University Institute for European Studies, 1993–1995

Visiting Associate Professor of English, Keuka College, Spring 1993

College Advancement Writer (Development Officer), Keuka College, 1991–1992

Independent Scholar and Consultant, 1989–1991

Visiting Associate Professor of English, Keuka College, Spring 1989

Visiting Scholar in English and Theatre Arts, Cornell University, 1987–1989

Visiting Scholar in English, Oregon State University, 1985–1987

Visiting Assistant Professor of English, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Spring 1985

Visiting Scholar in English, Cornell University, 1984–1985

Assistant Professor of English, Keuka College, 1983–1984

National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellow, 1982–1983

Faculty Participant, Administrative Skills Program, HERS Institute, Wellesley College, 1981–1982

Assistant Professor of English, Assumption College, 1980–1981

Honorary Fellow, Clark University, 1979–1982

Faculty Participant, New Directions in Literary Study, NEH Summer Seminar for College Teachers, 1978

Assistant Professor of English, University of Hartford, 1973–1979

Instructor of English, University of Hartford, 1972–1973

Lecturer in English, Clark University, 1971–1972

Part-time Lecturer in English, Indiana University Bloomington, 1970–1971 (Fall)

Associate Instructor of English, Indiana University Bloomington, 1966–1970

HONORS, AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND GRANTS

Marist College Summer Research Grant, 1999

National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Stipend, 1998

Fulbright Senior Scholar Award to the Czech Republic, 1996–1997

International Research and Exchanges Board Short-Term Travel Grant (Prague), 1995–1996

Choice Outstanding Academic Book Award (Pinter in Play), 1992

Hull Memorial Fund (Cornell University) Grant (Pinter in Play), 1990

NEH Fellowship for College Teachers, 1982–1983

Clark University Provost's Tuition Grant (HERS Institute for Women in Higher Education Administration, Wellesley College), 1981–1982

NEH Fellowship, Summer Seminar for College Teachers, 1978

Dissertation Year Fellowship, Indiana University Bloomington, 1971 (Spring)

PUBLICATIONS

Books and Bibliographies

Pinter in Play: Critical Strategies and the Plays of Harold Pinter. Durham and London: Duke UP, 1990. (Hardcover ed.) 1992 Choice Outstanding Academic Book Award. Durham and London: Duke UP, 1995. (Paperback ed. with new pref.)

"Harold Pinter Bibliography." The Pinter Review. Tampa: U of Tampa P, 1987–2011. 1 (1987): 77-82; 2 (1988): 83-92; 3 (1989): 112-21; 4 (1990): 113-23; 5 (1991): 79-94; 6 (1992–93): 100-11; 7 (1994): 138-61; 8 (1995 and 1996): 208-28; 9 (1997 and 1998): 186-218; 10 (1999 and 2000): 191-230; 11 (2001 and 2002): 238-71; 12 (2003 and 2004): 242-300; 13 (2005–2008): 261-343; 14 (Memorial Volume 2009–2011): 220-77. (Comp.; invited Bibliographical Editor of The Pinter Review.)

"Reader-Oriented Criticism: A Bibliography." Reader 1 (Jan. 1977): 7-10. (Comp. with Robert Crosman.)

Articles, Essays, and Other Sections of Books

"Pursuing Pinter . . . ." Remembering/Celebrating Harold Pinter: The Pinter Review: Memorial Volume 2009–2011. Ed. Francis Gillen. Tampa: U of Tampa P, 2011). 57-78.

"The Mistiness of the Past." Asides: A Publication of the Shakespeare Theatre Company. Washington, DC: Shakespeare Theatre Company, 2011. 4-8. (Commissioned essay on Old Times.)

" 'The memory of all that' : Presence and Prescience of the Past in Old Times." Shakespeare Theatre Company Guide to the Season's Plays: 2010–2011 Season. Washington, DC: Shakespeare Theatre Company, 2010. 43-47. (Commissioned essay.)

"Pursuing Pinter." Nasleđje (Heritage: Jour. of Language, Literature, Art and Culture [Faculty of Philology and Arts, U of Kragujevac, Serbia]) 12 (2009): 151-70. Special thematic issue dedicated to Harold Pinter. Chief Editor, Dragan Bošković. Co-editor Radmila Nastić.

"(Anti-)Global Pinter." The Pinter Review: Nobel Prize/Europe Theatre Prize Volume: 2005–2008. Ed. Francis Gillen with Steven H. Gale. Tampa: U of Tampa P, 2008. 140-67.

"Nobel Week 2005–The Experience of a Lifetime: Homage to Harold Pinter." The Pinter Review: Nobel Prize/Europe Theatre Prize Volume: 2005–2008. Ed. Francis Gillen with Steven H. Gale. Tampa: U of Tampa P, 2008. 51-65.

"Pursuing Critical Exchange." The Society for Critical Exchange: Phase I: 1975–1988. Ed. Patricia Harkin and David Downing. Special issue of Works and Days 25.49/50 (2007): 139-62.

" 'HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME' : Pinter Past, Pinter Present, and Pinter Future." The Pinter Review: Collected Essays: 2003 and 2004. Ed. Francis Gillen and Steven H. Gale. Tampa: U of Tampa P, 2004. 61-82.

"Staging Pinter: From Pregnant Pauses to Political Causes" (Transcript of panel discussion at Harbourfront World Leaders Festival, Toronto). The Pinter Review: Collected Essays 2003 and 2004. Ed. Francis Gillen and Steven H. Gale. Tampa: U of Tampa P, 2004. 123-43.

"Pinter on Pinter." Interview with Harold Pinter conducted by Mel Gussow. Transcribed (with the assistance of Sean Donnelly) and edited by Susan Hollis Merritt. The Pinter Review: Collected Essays 2001 and 2002. Ed. Francis Gillen and Steven H. Gale. Tampa: U of Tampa P, 2002. 14-37.

"Talking about Pinter." The Lincoln Center 2001: Harold Pinter Festival Symposia: "Introd. to the Works of Harold Pinter," by Michael Billington; "Playwrights on Pinter": Arthur Miller, Edward Albee, and John Guare; "Actors on Pinter": Blythe Danner, Liev Schreiber, and Henry Woolf; & "Directors on Pinter": David Jones, Gari Jones, and Karel Reisz. Programs transcribed (with the assistance of Sean Donnelly) and based on notes by Susan Hollis Merritt. The Pinter Review: Collected Essays 2001 and 2002. Ed. Francis Gillen and Steven H. Gale. Tampa: U of Tampa P, 2002. 144-67.

"Pinter and Politics." Pinter at 70: A Casebook. Ed. Lois Gordon. Casebooks on Modern Dramatists 30. 1990. Rev. & enl. ed. New York and London: Routledge, 2001. 129-60.

"Harold Pinter's Ashes to Ashes: Political/Personal Echoes of the Holocaust." The Pinter Review: Collected Essays 1999 and 2000. Ed. Francis Gillen and Steven H. Gale. Tampa: U of Tampa P, 2000. 73-84.

"Post-Revolutionary Perspectives on Ancient Greek Drama in Prague." (Dis)Placing Greek Classical Theatre. Eds. Savas Patsalidis and Elizabeth Sakellaridou. Thessaloniki: U Studio P (Aristotle U of Thessaloniki), 1999. 179-90.

"Pinter Playing Pinter: The Hothouse." The Pinter Review: Annual Essays 1995 and 1996. Ed. Francis Gillen and Steven H. Gale. Tampa: U of Tampa P, 1997. 73-84.

"The Harold Pinter Archive in the British Library." The Pinter Review: Annual Essays 1994. Ed. Francis Gillen and Steven H. Gale. Tampa: U of Tampa P, 1994. 14-53.

"The Outsider in Pinter and Havel." Pinter at Sixty. Ed. Katherine H. Burkman and John L. Kundert-Gibbs. Drama and Performance Studies. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1993. 64-75.

"Major Critics, Strategies, and Trends in Pinter Criticism." "Bibliographic Essay" in Critical Essays on Harold Pinter. Ed. Steven H. Gale. Critical Essays on British Literature. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1990. 307-41.

"Recent Developments in Pinter Criticism." Pinter Rev. 1 (1987): 68-76.

"Pinter's 'Semantic Uncertainty' and 'Critically Inescapable' Certainties." Jour. of Dramatic Theory and Criticism 1.1 (Fall 1986): 49-76.

"Beyond? Interpretation." SCE Reports 6 (Fall 1979): 40-54.

"Teaching Literature through Readers." Reader 4 (May 1978): 9-15.

Special Issues Guest Edited by Invitation

Literary Change/Critical Change. Critical Exchange 13 (Spring 1983): 1-81; "Theoretical Writing as a Kind of Change": ii-ix; SCE Reports 12 (Fall 1982): 1-25; "Guest Editor's Preface": ii.

NDLS Newsletter 2 (Feb. 1980). Inc. "Poetic and Interpretive Truth: Dwelling in the Authenticity of Metaphor": 10-13; NDLS Newsletter 1 (August 1979). [Coordinating Ed.]

Applications of Theories of Reading to Literature and Composition Pedagogy. Reader 7 (Jan. 1980): 1-56. Inc. Guest Editor's Preface: 1-2; "Fantasy in Fiction: Studying Literature through Readers": 22-28; "Some Issues Relating to Reader-Oriented Teaching": 28-39; "Report on the 1979 NEMLA Forum on The Reader of Literature": 48-51.

Selected Review-Essays, Reviews, Interviews, and Other Publications

Rev. of Harold Pinter: A Bibliographical History, compiled by William Baker and John C. Ross. The Pinter Review: Nobel Prize/Europe Theatre Prize Volume: 2005–2008. Ed. Francis Gillen with Steven H. Gale. Tampa: U of Tampa P, 2008. 238-59.

"Betrayal in Denver." The Pinter Review: Collected Essays 2003 and 2004. Ed. Francis Gillen and Steven H. Gale. Tampa: U of Tampa P, 2004. 187-201.

"Monologue at Lincoln Center." The Pinter Review: Collected Essays 2001 and 2002. Ed. Francis Gillen and Steven H. Gale. Tampa: U of Tampa P, 2002. 171-82.

"Ashes to Ashes in New York." The Pinter Review: Collected Essays 1997 and 1998. Ed. Francis Gillen and Steven H. Gale. Tampa: U of Tampa P, 1999. 156-59.

"Moonlight and The Homecoming in Prague." The Pinter Review: Annual Essays 1995 and 1996. Ed. Francis Gillen and Steven H. Gale. Tampa: U of Tampa P, 1997. 171-79.

Rev. of The Pinter Ethic, by Penelope Prentice. Modern Drama 38 (1995): 528-30.

"A Conversation with Carey Perloff, Bill Moor, Peter Riegert, Jean Stapleton, and David Strathairn." Pinter Rev. 3 (1989): 59-84.

Rev. of Harold Pinter: Critical Approaches, ed. Steven H. Gale, and Harold Pinter: The Birthday Party, The Caretaker, The Homecoming: A Casebook, ed. Michael Scott. Modern Drama 32 (1989): 459-62.

Rev. of Pinter's Female Portraits: A Study of Female Characters in the Plays of Harold Pinter, by Elizabeth Sakellaridou. Modern Drama 32 (1989): 171-73.

Rev. of The Birthday Party, by Harold Pinter (CSC). Pinter Rev. 2 (1988): 66-70.

"Forum: Dialogic Discourse." PMLA 102 (1987): 830-31. (Letter to the editor.)

"Stalking Harold Pinter." Worcester Telegram & Gazette Sunday Morn. Mag. 4 Apr. 1982: 3, 14. Inc. interview with Adrian Hall, Artistic Dir., Trinity Square Rep. Co., Providence, RI.

Rev. of Harold Pinter: An Annotated Bibliography, by Steven H. Gale. Modern Drama 23 (1980): 87-91.

"The Reader as a Person." Reader 3 (July 1977): 5-7.

CURRENT RESEARCH AND WORK IN PROGRESS

"The Global Politics of Contemporary Drama and the Media":
A study of how political change affects dramatic and performing arts and the media and their interrelations. Focuses on the post-totalitarian Czech production and reception of contemporary drama by British, American, Irish, and Czech playwrights. Engages issues of cultural identity, human rights, and social ethics. Travel and research supported by grants from IREX, CIES (Fulbright Program), NEH, and Marist College.

"The Harold Pinter Bibliography":
"The Harold Pinter Bibliography (Searchable Digital Database)" (2012–present). Cf. The Pinter Review (1987-2011). Project Director.

"In Pursuit of . . .":
An academic memoir.

"Reaching for the Stars":
An investigation of connections among virtual literary communities, cultural media, performance, celebrity, politics, social and political activism, and philanthropy.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Pinter Festival. ACT: A Contemporary Theatre. Seattle, WA. 20 July–26 Aug. 2012. 23-26 Aug. 2012. (Invited guest.)

"Being and Not Being Harold Pinter: Pinter Still in Play in the USA." Conference on Pinter Abroad: Other Stages, Other Rooms. University of Maribor. Maribor, Slovenia. 22-24 Sept. 2011. Plenary address. (Invited speaker.)

"Romantic Pinter." Session B: Pinter's Relationships. Program organized by the International Harold Pinter Society (Associated Organization). Annual Convention of the Midwest Modern Language Association (M/MLA). Hyatt Regency McCormick Place. Chicago, IL. 6 Nov. 2010. Paper. (Invited speaker.)

"Pinter Still in Play: Pinter's Legacies." Pinter's Intertexts. Paper. Chair, Fractured Narratives and Postmodern Theatre. Conference on Fractured Narratives: Pinter, Postmodernism and the Postcolonial World. Department of Drama and The Pinter Centre for Performance and Creative Writing, Goldsmiths, University of London. London, Eng. 5-7 Nov. 2009. (Invited speaker and panel moderator.)

Harold Pinter Room & Studio Theatre and Pinter Residency. Opening and dedication by Lady Antonia Fraser. Hackney Empire Theatre, London. 16 June 2009. (Invited guest.)

Harold Pinter: A Celebration. Olivier Theatre, Royal National Theatre, London. 7 June 2009. (Invited guest.)

Man of the Theatre and Pinter and Politics. Harold Pinter Memorial Celebration: Tribute to Harold Pinter. (Photos.) Curator Harry Burton. 5th Annual PEN World Voices Festival: New York Festival of International Literature. PEN American Center and The Graduate Center of The City University of New York. The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, New York. 2 May 2009. Comments. (Invited speaker.)

"Pursuing Pinter: From Stage to Screen and Page, from Page to Stage and Screen–and Back and Forth Again." Paper presented to Artist and Citizen: 50 Years of Performing Pinter. Workshop Theatre, University of Leeds, Leeds, Eng. 12-15 Apr. 2007. Plenary speech. (Invited speaker and panel moderator.)

"(Anti-)Global Pinter: Living and Working in the Theater–Outside/Inside Global Politics (An Intersubjective, Inter[con]textual Reading of Harold Pinter's Nobel Lecture 'Art, Truth & Politics')." Pinter: Passion, Poetry, Politics: A Symposium on Harold Pinter, curated by Michael Billington, for the Europe Theatre Prize–X Edition. Turin, Italy. 8-12 Mar. 2006. Paper. (Invited speaker.)

Nobel Week 2005, including: The Nobel Lecture: "Art, Truth & Politics," presented by Harold Pinter, Nobel Laureate in Literature; The Nobel Concert; The Nobel Prize Ceremony; The Nobel Banquet; and related events organized by the Nobel Committee and the Swedish Academy. Stockholm, Sweden, 5-13 Dec. 2005. (Invited guest and foreign media-credentialed representative.)

"Harold Pinter and Václav Havel: Living and Working in the Theater–Outside/Inside Global Politics." Session A: Pinter and Other Playwrights. Program organized by The Harold Pinter Society. Annual Convention of the Midwest Modern Language Association (M/MLA). Milwaukee, WI. 10-13 Nov. 2005. Paper. (Invited speaker.)

"Provocations: The David Cohen British Literature Prize Event" and related events. International Book Festival, Fringe Festival, & International Festival. Edinburgh, Scotland. 22-26 Aug. 2002. (Invited guest and media-credentialed representative.)

World Leaders: A Festival of Creative Genius: Homage to Harold Pinter and the International Festival of Authors 2001. Harbourfront Centre, Toronto. 14-18 Oct. 2001. (Invited guest and press-credentialed media representative.)

Lincoln Center Festival 2001: Pinter Festival. Lincoln Center, New York. 16 July 2001 and 21-31 July 2001. (Invited guest.)

"Harold Pinter's Ashes to Ashes: Political/Personal Echoes of the Holocaust." Pinter in London Conference. Hotel Russell, London. 15-18 June 2000. Paper. (Invited speaker.)

"Harold Pinter's Ashes to Ashes: Personal/Political Echoes of the Holocaust." The 29th Annual Scholars' Conference on the Holocaust. Nassau Community College, Uniondale, NY, 6-9 Mar. 1999. Paper. (Invited speaker.)

International Theatre Association Conference on Scenography. Theatre Institute, Prague, Czech Republic, 16-20 June 1999. (Invited guest.)

"Post-Revolutionary Perspectives on Ancient Greek Drama in Prague." Millennium Responses: (Dis)Placing Greek Theatre. International Theatre Association Conference. Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. 17-22 Sept. 1997. Paper. (Invited speaker.)

"Critical Strategies and the Plays of Harold Pinter." The Institute of English and American Studies, Faculty of the Arts, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic. 9 Apr. 1997. Paper. (Invited speaker.)

Images of Peace and War in the Balkans. Upstate New York Peace Studies Network. Colgate University, Hamilton, NY. 21 Oct. 1995. (Panelist.)

The Balkans: Women and Social Change. Upstate New York Peace Studies Network. Tompkins Cortland Community College, Dryden, NY. 13 May 1995. (Attendance.)

The Balkans: Nationalism and Ethnicity. Upstate New York Peace Studies Network. Hamilton College, Clinton, NY. 9 Apr. 1994. (Attendance.)

The Balkans: Folklore and National Symbols. Upstate New York Peace Studies Network. Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. 6 Nov. 1993. (Attendance.)

"President Havel's Opening Address to the Prague World PEN Congress, 'Intellectuals, Government Policy, and Tolerance' Panel, and Playwrights' Roundtable in Plzen." Intellectuals and the Public Sphere. Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. 30 Apr. 1995. Paper. (Invited speaker.)

61st World Congress of International PEN, Prague,Czech Republic. 6-12 Nov. 1994. Attendance. (Invited guest and media-credentialed representative.)

Theatre Institute, Prague. 26 July-10 Aug. 1994. (Invited consultant.)

The British Library, London, Eng. 8-25 July, 1994. (Invited consultant.)

CASE Workshop on Corporate and Foundation Support. Marina del Rey, CA. 11-13 May 1992. Attendance. (Sponsored by Keuka College.)

"Recent Critical Approaches to Harold Pinter's Plays." Critical Perspectives. "The Outsider in Pinter and Havel." Pinter and Havel. A Pinter Festival: An International Meeting. The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH. 19-21 Apr. 1991. Papers. (Invited speaker and panel moderator.)

The Modern Language Association (MLA)

Pinter in Seattle: A Creative Conversation with Frank Corrado and Harry Burton. Program arranged for The International Harold Pinter Society. Seattle. 2012. (Program organizer and presider.)

"Pinter's Voices." Pinter's Voice. Program arranged by The International Harold Pinter Society. Seattle. 2012. Paper. (Panelist.)

"The Politics of Marriage in Pinter's Plays: Odd Couplings, Power Relations, Fidelity Issues, and the Consequences of Betrayal(s)." The Politics of Marriage in Pinter's Works. Program arranged by the Harold Pinter Society and Business Meeting. Philadelphia. 2004. Paper. (Program organizer and presider.)

La Femme Nikita's Virtual Literary Communities: From Proximity to Philanthropy to Social and Political Activism." Virtual Literary Communities: La Femme Nikita, 24, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Related Fandemonia. San Diego. 2003. Paper. (Organizer and moderator.)

" 'HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME' : Pinter Past, Pinter Present, and Pinter Future." Harold Pinter's Influence and Influences II. Program arranged by the Harold Pinter Society. New York. 2003. Paper. (Organizer and presider.)

Rereading Pinter: The Archive, the Biography, and Recent Interviews as Context. Program arranged by the Harold Pinter Society. San Francisco. 1998. Comments. (Respondent.)

"Pinter in Production in Prague." Pinter in Production. Program arranged by the Harold Pinter Society. Washington, D.C. 1996. Paper. (Organizer/presider.)

"Pinter and Politics." Political Pinter? Chicago. 1990. Paper. (Organizer and moderator.)

The Vocabularies of Criticism and Theory (VOCAT) I: Rationales for a Dictionary; II: Procedures for a Dictionary. Chicago. 1985. (Panelist.)

Literary Change and Critical Change. Los Angeles. 1982. Special Session. (Organizer and moderator.)

The Cultural Institutionalization and Validation of Literature. New York. 1981. Special Session. (Organizer and moderator.)

Political and Social Implications of Institutionalizing Literature through Textbooks. Houston. 1980. Special Session. (Organizer and moderator.)

Beyond Interpretation (contributor). San Francisco. 1979. Comments. (Contributor.)

Literary Worlds and Actual Worlds: The Problem of Reference. San Francisco. 1979. Comments. (Respondent.)

Forum on Presence, Knowledge, and Authority in the Teaching of Literature, Discussion Session. New York. 1978. (Moderator and discussion leader.)

Harold Pinter as Screenwriter. New York. 1978. Comments. (Respondent.)

"Seeing James's 'The Turn of the Screw' through Readers." The Reader of Fiction: Theories and Their Applications. Paper. (Panelist.)

Experience, Language, and the Making of Fictions: The Paradigm of Voyeurism. Chicago. 1977. Comments. (Discussant.)

Forum Workshop on How Readers Make Meaning: The Issue of Subjectivity in Criticism. New York. 1976. Moderator. (Co-organizer with Robert Crosman).

Epistemological Problems in Language and Literature. New York. 1976. Moderator. (Co-discussion leader with David Bleich.)

Manifestations of the Absurd. San Francisco. 1975. (Discussant.)

"A New Critical Approach to Beckett's Plays: Affective Sources of 'Beckett's Meaning.'" New Critical Approaches to Beckett's Plays. New York. 1974. Paper. (Panelist.)

The Society for Critical Exchange (SCE) and Indiana University

How Do Political Gender Considerations Change the Idea of the Individual Subject? How Does Such a Change Affect Our Understanding of How We Use Language? Empiricism and Hermeneutics: The Invention of Facts in the Study of Literature. Bloomington. 1986. (Workshop leader.)

Teaching Theory. Bloomington. 1984. Attendance. (Invited guest.)

How Do Classrooms, Professional Meetings, Privacy and Other Contexts Affect Reading? Theories of Reading. Bloomington. 1981. (Workshop leader.)

How Are Narrative Theories Socially and Professionally Authorized by the Character of University Curricula? Theories of Narrative. Bloomington. 1980. (Workshop leader.)

The Society for Critical Exchange Programs at Annual Conventions of the Northeast Modern Language Association and the Midwest Modern Language Association

Professional Women as Readers. NEMLA. Philadelphia. 1984. (Coordinator.)

Authority in the Profession of Literary Study: What Are the Issues? NEMLA. Erie, PA. 1983. (Chair.)

The Concepts of Production and Reception. NEMLA. New York. 1982. Comments. (Coordinator and panelist.)

The Work of Fredric Jameson. NEMLA. New York. 1982. (Coordinator and moderator.)

The Concept of Creativity. NEMLA. Quebec. 1981. Comments. (Coordinator and panelist.)

The Concept of Literary Competence. M/MLA. Minneapolis. 1980. (Panelist.)

The Concept of the Reader. NEMLA. North Dartmouth, MA. 1980. (Coordinator and panelist.)

Forum: The Reader of Literature. NEMLA. Hartford. 1979. (Coordinator and moderator.)

Other Invited Presentations

"Critical Responses to Pinter's Plays." Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA. 1984. Lecture.

"Reversals of Expectations and the Fantastic: Alice in Wonderland and Dressed to Kill." The Psychohistory of Film and Humor; Film Fantasies: Different Decades/Different Heroes, International Psychohistorical Association. Lehman College, CUNY, Bronx, NY. 1981. Paper.

Reader-Response Criticism and the Teaching of Literature and Composition. College English Association, Cherry Hill, NJ. 1981. Panel. (Coordinator and chair.)

"Psychoanalysis and Literary Theory: The Problem of Affect." Brown University, Providence, RI. 1980. Lecture.

"Responses to David Mamet's The Woods." Clark University, Worcester, MA. 1980. Lecture.

COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY TEACHING
Teaching and Research Areas and Interests

Dramatic Literature, Criticism, and Theory

Theater, Performance, and Cultural Media Studies

Intercultural/Global Perspectives on Politics, Literature, and Human Rights

Research Methodologies, Critical Reading, Academic Writing, and Editing

Computer-assisted Pedagogy and Distance Education

Virtual Literary Communities

Selected Courses Taught
Undergraduate (Variable Topics and Numbers of Sections Offered)
Special Topics: Human Rights and the Literature of Conscience (with Professor Mar Peter-Raoul)
Contemporary American Drama
Rise and Development of English Drama II
Special Topics: The Theatre of the Absurd and After
Twentieth-Century European Drama
Literary Genres: Drama and Poetry
College Writing I
College Writing II
Expository Writing and Readings from Literature
Topics in Drama
Shakespeare: Tragedies
Shakespeare: Comedies
British Literature 1900 to the present
English Literature 1825–1860
English Literature 1860–1900
Introduction to Literature
Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama
Restoration and 18th-Century Drama
Modern Drama 1860–1920
Modern Drama 1920 to the Present
18th-Century English Novel
Special Topics: The Theatre of Cruelty
Special Topics: Beckett, Pinter, and Albee
Women Playwrights (Director of Independent Study)
Special Topics: Black Dramatists
Special Topics: Fantasy in Fiction
Introduction to Literature
Freshman Composition
Research and Writing
English Composition and Literature
Introduction to the Short Story and Novel (Intern)
Introduction to Literature (Intern)
Advanced Expository Writing
Advanced Program of Elementary Composition
Elementary Composition

Graduate Seminars
Studies in the Form of the Drama
Studies in Drama

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Marist College: Committee on the Global Studies Program; Program Development of the Theatre Concentration and Minor; Judge, Festivals 1999 and 2000 (Marist Council on the Theatre Arts)

Keuka College: Committees on Academic Computing and Library Computer Automation (Grantswriter); Humanities/Fine Arts Colloquia (Coordinator); Faculty Reappointment, Promotion, and Tenure; and the Future of the Divisions of Humanities and Fine Arts

Assumption College: Committees on Cross-Disciplinary Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Development Programs

University of Hartford: Faculty Representative to the Student Union Board of Governors; Committees on Curriculum (Chair); Freshman/Transfer Orientation; Academic Standards; Freshman English; Teaching Evaluation; Library; Graduate Studies; and Faculty Grants

INVITED PRESS AND PEER REVIEW CONSULTANCIES
Duke University Press
Grove Press
Paragon Press
St. Martin's Press
Winthrop Publishers
Contemporary Literature
Genre
Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Journal of Modern Literature
The Pinter Review

EDITORIAL AND EXECUTIVE BOARDS

The Pinter Review (1987–present): Founding Bibliographical Editor

Society for Critical Exchange (1978–1984): NE Regional Representative and Ad Hoc Member of the Executive Board

University of Hartford (1972–1979): Editorial Review Board, University of Hartford Press (Acting Chair); Editorial Board, Journal of Undergraduate Studies (U of Hartford P); Board of Advisory Editors, Hartford Studies in Literature

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
The Association of Departments of English (Affiliate Member)
The Association for Theatre in Higher Education
The David Mamet Society (Charter Member)
The Fulbright Association (Alumna Member)
The International Harold Pinter Society (Charter and Life Member)
The Midwest Modern Language Association
The Modern Language Association (Life Member)
The Society for Critical Exchange (Charter Member)
Theatre Communications Group