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SUSAN HOLLIS MERRITT, Ph.D.
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P.O. Box 95
Keuka Park, NY 14478-0095
USA
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EDUCATION
Wellesley College, Academic Management Institute, HERS New England, Certificate, 1982.
University of Virginia, NEH Summer Seminar for College Teachers, 1978. (Theory and Criticism)
Indiana University at Bloomington, M.A. and Ph.D. in English Language and Literature, 1971, 1973.
University of Wisconsin-Madison, B.A. with Honors, 1966. (English major)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Consultant, Modern Literary Manuscripts, The British Library, 2008- .
Independent Scholar and Consultant, 2000- .
Associate Professor of English/Theatre Arts, Marist College, 1996-2000. (On leave: Spring 1997).
Fulbright Senior Scholar, Theatre Institute, Prague; Research Associate, Charles University, Prague, Spring 1997.
Visiting Fellow, Cornell University, Institute for European Studies, 1993-95.
Visiting Associate Professor of English, Keuka College, Spring 1993.
College Advancement Writer (Development Officer), Keuka College, 1991-92.
Visiting Associate Professor of English, Keuka College, Spring 1989.
Visiting Scholar in English and Theatre Arts, Cornell University, 1987-89.
Visiting Scholar in English, Oregon State University, 1985-87.
Visiting Assistant Professor of English, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Spring 1985.
Visiting Scholar in English, Cornell University, 1984-85.
Assistant Professor of English, Keuka College, 1983-84.
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellow, 1982-1983.
Faculty Participant, Administrative Skills Program in Higher Education Administration, Higher Education Resource Services (HERS) New England, Wellesley College, 1981-1982.
Assistant Professor of English, Assumption College, 1980-81.
Honorary Fellow, Clark University, 1979-82.
Assistant Professor of English, University of Hartford, 1973-79; Instructor, 1972-73. 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, 1996-97.
International Research and Exchanges Board Short-Term Travel Grant (Prague), 1995-96.
Choice Outstanding Academic Book Award (Pinter in Play), 1992.
Hull Memorial Fund (Cornell University) Grant (Pinter in Play), 1990.
NEH Fellowship for College Teachers, 1982-83.
Clark University Provost's Tuition Grant (Administrative Skills Program in Higher Education Administration, Higher Education Resource Services (HERS) Institute, Wellesley College), 1981-82.
NEH Fellowship, Summer Seminar for College Teachers, 1978.
Dissertation Year Fellowship, Indiana University, 1971.
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PUBLICATIONS
Books, Articles, and Parts of BooksThe "Harold Pinter Bibliography" for The Pinter Review. 1987: 77-82; 1988: 83-92; 1989: 112-21; 1990: 113-23; 1991: 79-94; 1992-93 (1993): 100-11; 1994 (1994): 138-61; 1995 and 1996 (1997): 208-28; 1997 and 1998 (1999): 186-218; 1999 and 2000 (2000): 191-230; 2001 and 2002 (2002): 238-71; 2003 and 2004 (2004): 242-300; 2005 and 2006 (2008): in press. (Compiled as invited Bibliographical Editor.) "(Anti-)Global Pinter." The Pinter Review: Collected Essays: 2005 and 2006. Ed. Francis Gillen and Steven H. Gale. Tampa: U of Tampa P, 2008. In press. (Invited and peer-reviewed.) "Nobel Week 2005: The Experience of a Lifetime: Homage to Harold Pinter. The Pinter Review: Collected Essays: 2005 and 2006 (2008). In press. (Invited and peer-reviewed.) "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. (Invited and peer-reviewed.)
"'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. 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. Rev. & enl. ed. 1990; New York: 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.
Pinter in Play: Critical Strategies and the Plays of Harold Pinter. 1990; Durham and London: Duke UP, 1995.
"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." 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.
"Reader-Oriented Criticism: A Bibliography." Reader 1 (Jan. 1977): 7-10. (With Robert Crosman.
"Nobel Week 2005–The Experience of a Lifetime: Homage to Harold Pinter." The Pinter Review: Collected Essays: 2005 and 2006 (2008): in press. (Invited & peer-reviewed.)
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
Review of Harold Pinter: A Bibliographical History, by William Baker and John C. Ross. The Pinter Review: Collected Essays 2005 and 2006. Ed. Francis Gillen and Steven H. Gale. Tampa: U of Tampa P, 2008. In press.
"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.
"Dialogic Discourse." PMLA 102 (1987): 830-31.
"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.
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RESEARCH AND WORK IN PROGRESS
"Global Politics: Contemporary Drama and the Media."
A study considering the changing relationships between the post-totalitarian Czech political state and the dramatic and performing arts and media, pertaining to the Czech production and reception of plays by Václav Havel, Harold Pinter, Arthur Miller, Tom Stoppard, Edward Albee, Samuel Beckett, Marsha Norman, Tony Kushner, Brian Friel, and other contemporary playwrights, engaging issues of cultural identity, human rights, and social ethics. Travel and research supported by grants from IREX, CIES (Fulbright Program), NEH, and Marist College.
"Harold Pinter Bibliography." (Published annually or biennially in The Pinter Review: Collected Essays.)
"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"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. (Invited plenary speaker.)
"(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')." Paper presented to Pinter: Passion, Poetry and Politics: A Symposium on Harold Pinter, Europe Theatre Prize--X Edition. Turin, Italy, 8-12 Mar. 2006. (Invited.)
Nobel Week 2005: 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, 7-10 Dec. 2005. (Invited.)
"Pinter and Havel: Living and Working in the Theater--Outside/Inside Global Politics." Paper presented to 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. (Invited and peer-reviewed.)
"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.)
World Leaders: A Festival of Creative Genius: Homage to Harold Pinter and the International Festival of Authors 2001. Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, Can., 14-18 Oct. 2001. (Invited.)
Lincoln Center Festival 2001: Pinter Festival. Lincoln Center, New York, NY, 16 July 2001; 21-31 July 2001. (Invited.)
"Harold Pinter's Ashes to Ashes: Political/Personal Echoes of the Holocaust." Papers presented to the Pinter in London Conference & to the 29th Annual Scholars' Conference on the Holocaust. London, 15-18 June 2000; Nassau Community College, Uniondale, NY, 6-9 Mar. 1999. (Invited and peer-reviewed.)
International Theatre Association Conference on Scenography. Theatre Institute, Prague, Czech Republic, 16-20 June 1999. (Invited.)
"Post-Revolutionary Perspectives on Ancient Greek Drama in Prague." Paper presented to the International Theatre Association Conference: Millennium Responses: (Dis)Placing Greek Theatre, at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, 17-22 Sept. 1997. (Invited and peer-reviewed.)
"Critical Strategies and the Plays of Harold Pinter." Lecture presented to the Institute of English and American Studies, Faculty of the Arts, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, 9 Apr. 1997. (Invited.)
Upstate New York Peace Studies Network: Images of Peace and War in the Balkans, Colgate University, 21 Oct. 1995; The Balkans: Women and Social Change, Tompkins Cortland Community College, 13 May 1995; The Balkans: Nationalism and Ethnicity, Hamilton College, 9 Apr. 1994; The Balkans: Folklore and National Symbols, Cornell University, 6 Nov. 1993. (Invited.)
"President Havel's Opening Address to the Prague World PEN Congress, 'Intellectuals, Government Policy, and Tolerance' Panel, and Playwrights' Roundtable in Plzen." Introduction to symposium on Intellectuals and the Public Sphere, Cornell University, 30 Apr. 1995. (Invited.)
61st World Congress of International PEN, Prague, 6-12 Nov. 1994. (Invited.)
Consultant. Theatre Institute, Prague, 26 July-10 Aug. 1994; The British Library, London, 8-25 July, 1994. (Invited.)
CASE Workshop on Corporate and Foundation Support. Marina del Rey, CA, 11-13 May 1992. (Invited.)
Pinter and Politics (moderator); "Recent Critical Approaches to Harold Pinter's Plays" and "The Outsider in Pinter and Havel": Papers presented to Critical Perspectives and Pinter and Havel, at A Pinter Festival: An International Meeting, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 19-21 Apr. 1991. (Invited and peer-reviewed.)
The Modern Language Association (MLA):"The Politics of Marriage in Pinter's Plays: Odd Couplings, Power Relations, Fidelity Issues, and the Consequences of Betrayal(s)," paper presented at The Politics of Marriage in Pinter's Works (organizer/presider), program arranged by the Harold Pinter Society, and Business Meeting (presider), Philadelphia, 2004; La Femme Nikita's Virtual Literary Communities: From Proximity to Philanthropy to Social and Political Activism," paper presented at Virtual Literary Communities: La Femme Nikita, 24, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Related Fandemonia (organizer/presider), San Diego, 2003; "'HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME': Pinter Past, Pinter Present, and Pinter Future," paper presented at Harold Pinter's Influence and Influences II, program arranged by the Harold Pinter Society, New York, 2003; Rereading Pinter: The Archive, the Biography, and Recent Interviews as Context (respondent), program arranged by the Harold Pinter Society, San Francisco, 1998; "Pinter in Production in Prague," paper presented at Pinter in Production, program arranged by the Harold Pinter Society (organizer/presider), Washington, D.C., 1996; "Pinter and Politics," Introd. to Political Pinter?(coordinator/discussion leader), Chicago, 1990; The Vocabularies of Criticism and Theory (VOCAT) I: Rationales for a Dictionary; II: Procedures for a Dictionary (panelist), Chicago, 1985; Literary Change and Critical Change (coordinator/discussion leader), Los Angeles, 1982; The Cultural Institutionalization and Validation of Literature (coordinator/discussion leader), New York, 1981; Political and Social Implications of Institutionalizing Literature through Textbooks (coordinator/discussion leader), Houston, 1980; Beyond Interpretation (contributor); Literary Worlds and Actual Worlds: The Problem of Reference (respondent), San Francisco, 1979; Forum on Presence, Knowledge, and Authority in the Teaching of Literature, Discussion Session (moderator); Harold Pinter as Screenwriter (respondent), New York, 1978; "Seeing James's 'The Turn of the Screw' through Readers," paper presented at The Reader of Fiction: Theories and Their Applications; Experience, Language, and the Making of Fictions: The Paradigm of Voyeurism (discussant), Chicago, 1977; Forum Workshop on How Readers Make Meaning: The Issue of Subjectivity in Criticism (co-organizer with Robert Crosman); Epistemological Problems in Language and Literature (co-discussion leader with David Bleich), New York, 1976; Manifestations of the Absurd (discussant), San Francisco, 1975; "A New Critical Approach to Beckett's Plays: Affective Sources of 'Beckett's Meaning,'" paper presented at New Critical Approaches to Beckett's Plays, New York, 1974.
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? (workshop leader), Criticism and Hermeneutics: The Invention of Facts in the Study of Literature, Bloomington, 1986; Teaching Theory, Bloomington, 1984; How Do Classrooms, Professional Meetings, Privacy and Other Contexts Affect Reading? (workshop leader), Theories of Reading, Bloomington, 1981; How Are Narrative Theories Socially and Professionally Authorized by the Character of University Curricula? (workshop leader), Theories of Narrative, Bloomington, 1980.
The Society for Critical Exchange (SCE), in association with The Midwest Modern Language Association (M/MLA) and The Northeast Modern Language Association (NEMLA):Professional Women as Readers (coordinator), Philadelphia, 1984 (SCE; NEMLA); Authority in the Profession of Literary Study: What Are the Issues? (chair), Erie, PA, 1983 (SCE; NEMLA); The Concepts of Production and Reception (coordinator/panelist) and The Work of Fredric Jameson (coordinator), New York, 1982 (SCE; NEMLA); The Concept of Creativity (coordinator and panelist), Québec, 1981 (SCE; NEMLA); The Concept of Literary Competence (panelist), Minneapolis, 1980 (SCE; M/MLA); The Concept of the Reader (coordinator/panelist), North Dartmouth, MA, 1980 (SCE; NEMLA); Forum: The Reader of Literature (coordinator/moderator), Hartford, 1979(SCE; NEMLA).
Other Papers and Presentations:"Critical Responses to Pinter's Plays." Paper presented at Carnegie Mellon University, 1984.
"Reversals of Expectations and the Fantastic: Alice in Wonderland and Dressed to Kill." Paper presented to The Psychohistory of Film and Humor; Film Fantasies: Different Decades/Different Heroes, International Psychohistorical Assn., Lehman College, CUNY, Bronx, NY, 1981.
Reader-Response Criticism and the Teaching of Literature and Composition (coordinator/chair), College English Association, Cherry Hill, NJ, 1981.
"Psychoanalysis and Literary Theory: The Problem of Affect" and “Responses to David Mamet's The Woods." Lectures presented at Brown University and Clark University, 1980.
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COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY TEACHING
Teaching and Research Areas and Interests
Dramatic Literature, Criticism, and Theory; Intersections of Politics, Literature, and Cultural Media; Global Studies; Virtual Literary Communities; Research Methodologies; Distance Education.
Selected Courses Taught(Variable Topics and Numbers of Sections Offered)
Undergraduate:
Special Topics: Human Rights and the Literature of Conscience (taught collaboratively 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
Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama
Shakespeare: Tragedies
Shakespeare: Comedies
Restoration and 18th-Century Drama
Modern Drama 1860-1920
Modern Drama 1920 to the Present
Topics in Drama
Special Topics: The Theatre of Cruelty
Special Topics: Beckett, Pinter and Albee
Women Playwrights (Director of Independent Study)
Special Topics: Black Dramatists
18th-Century English Novel
English Literature 1825-1860
English Literature 1860-1900
British Literature 1900 to the present
Special Topics: Fantasy in Fiction
Literary Genres: Drama and Poetry
Introduction to Literature and Criticism
Introduction to Literature
College Writing I
College Writing II
Freshman Composition
Research and Writing
Expository Writing and Readings from Literature
Advanced Expository Writing
Advanced Program of Elementary Composition: Film Criticism
Advanced Program of Elementary Composition: Commitment in Philosophy and Literature
Advanced Program of Elementary Composition: The Politics of McCarthyism
Advanced Program of Elementary Composition
Graduate:
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
Journal of Modern Literature
The Pinter Review
EDITORIAL AND EXECUTIVE BOARDS
The Pinter Review (1987- ): Bibliographical Editor.
Society for Critical Exchange (1978-1984): NE Regional Representative and Ad Hoc Member of the Executive Board.
University of Hartford (1972-79): Editorial Review Board, U 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 American Association of University Professors
The Association for Theatre in Higher Education
The David Mamet Society (Charter Member)
The Fulbright Association
The Harold Pinter Society (Charter and Life Member)
The Modern Language Association (Life Member)
The Society for Critical Exchange (Charter Member)
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