Response from Carps
Dear Elizabeth,
It's great to hear from you and it's uncanny about Glaspell -- how she really speaks to people everywhere and at any level. Her work is loved by students all over the world -- Japan, China, Spain, France. I just met a French graduate student who is doing her dissertation on Glaspell -- she's really going out on a limb, because feminism is "out" in France, and of course there's no Glaspell in translation or anything, but this is how much Glaspell's work can mean to a person. So it was great hearing the story of your students' response to Trifles. Screw Shakespeare -- why not follow up with Inheritors? That's a play every immigrant kid can relate to!
I'm glad you got in touch because I was just thinking about you. No one is going to follow up on that discovery you made in the prison museum. You should do it. It would be an easy enough paper to write and I can help if you need. When we create the panel topic for the American Lit Conference in San Francisco this year, I could bend it toward some topic you could submit that paper to. It should be done -- it was your discovery, and you should get the credit. So give it some thought, will you?
I'm back at school now after my sabbatical -- and enjoying being back teaching again very much, especially the grad students. The major work I completed on sabbatical -- a comparison of Glaspell and Cather -- was just accepted for publication by Studies in American Fiction. I'm pretty pumped up about it. It may come out in the fall 2007 issue!
take care,
Martha (I think we can move to that at this point, don't you? Unless for sentimental reasons you still want to go with Dr.C.)
It's great to hear from you and it's uncanny about Glaspell -- how she really speaks to people everywhere and at any level. Her work is loved by students all over the world -- Japan, China, Spain, France. I just met a French graduate student who is doing her dissertation on Glaspell -- she's really going out on a limb, because feminism is "out" in France, and of course there's no Glaspell in translation or anything, but this is how much Glaspell's work can mean to a person. So it was great hearing the story of your students' response to Trifles. Screw Shakespeare -- why not follow up with Inheritors? That's a play every immigrant kid can relate to!
I'm glad you got in touch because I was just thinking about you. No one is going to follow up on that discovery you made in the prison museum. You should do it. It would be an easy enough paper to write and I can help if you need. When we create the panel topic for the American Lit Conference in San Francisco this year, I could bend it toward some topic you could submit that paper to. It should be done -- it was your discovery, and you should get the credit. So give it some thought, will you?
I'm back at school now after my sabbatical -- and enjoying being back teaching again very much, especially the grad students. The major work I completed on sabbatical -- a comparison of Glaspell and Cather -- was just accepted for publication by Studies in American Fiction. I'm pretty pumped up about it. It may come out in the fall 2007 issue!
take care,
Martha (I think we can move to that at this point, don't you? Unless for sentimental reasons you still want to go with Dr.C.)