Martha C. Carpentier, Ph.D., is recently retired as Professor of Modern British and Irish literature at Seton Hall University, New Jersey, USA. After publishing her first monograph, Ritual, Myth, and the Modernist Text: The Influence of Jane Ellen Harrison on Joyce, Eliot, and Woolf (Taylor & Francis, 1998), Dr. Carpentier authored and/or co-edited five books on the American playwright and fiction writer, Susan Glaspell, including most recently, Susan Glaspell’s Trifles and “A Jury of Her Peers”: Centennial Essays, Interviews and Adaptations (McFarland, 2015). In the area of Irish literature, Dr. Carpentier edited Joycean Legacies (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), and has published numerous articles on James Joyce and George Orwell, including “Orwell’s Joyce and Coming Up for Air” (Joyce Studies Annual, 2012); “‘We have been abandoned here’: Catholicism and the Priesthood in James Joyce’s ‘The Sisters’ and Graham Greene’s The Power and the Glory” (Joyce Studies Annual, 2014); and “The ‘Dark Power of Destiny’ in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four” (Mosaic 47.1, March 2014).
Elizabeth Brewer Redwine, Ph.D., is a lecturer in the English Department at Seton Hall University in New Jersey, USA. Dr. Redwine has recently published Tagore and Yeats: A Postcolonial Re-envisioning, edited with Amrita Ghosh, as part of Brill’s Cross/Cultures: Readings in Post/Colonial Literatures and Cultures in English series (2022). Her monograph, Gender, Performance, and Authorship at the Abbey Theatre was published by Oxford University Press in 2021 and she is currently under contract with Oxford University to publish Irish Abbey Theatre and film actress Sara Allgood’s Memoirs. Her recent articles include, “How Cathleen Became Mrs. Monihan: Sara Allgood’s ‘Grave Acting’ and Irish Female Performance” in Cambridge University Press’ New Theatre Quarterly and “The Big House in Flames: Constance Markievicz and Yeats’ Response to the Rising” in The Chesterton Review.
