Susan Carlson

Susan Lynn Carlson, Ph.D.
Professor
Associate Provost for Faculty Advancement and Diversity
Department of English
Office: 515.294.9556
Email: susanc@iastate.edu

Education

Ph.D., English, University of Oregon
M.A., English, University of Oregon
B.A., English, University of Iowa

Research Interests

• Flexible Faculty Careers
• Scholarship, Promotion, and Tenure
• British Suffrage Theatre
• Women and Comedy

Selected Publications

"Politicizing Harley Granville Barker: Suffragists and Shakespeare."New Theatre Quarterly XXII: 2 (May 2006): 122-140.

"Suffrage Theatre: Community Activism and Political Commitment."A Companion to Modern British and Irish Drama, 1880-2005. Ed. Mary Luckhurst. Oxford: Blackwell, 2006. 99-109.

"Re-imagining the Theatre: Women Playwrights of the Victorian and Edwardian Period."With Kerry Powell. Cambridge Companion to Edwardian and Victorian Theatre. Ed. Kerry Powell. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.

"Comic Militancy: The Politics of Suffrage Drama."Women, Theatre, and Performance: New Historiographies. Ed. Maggie B. Gale and Viv Gardner. Manchester: U of Manchester Press, 2001.

"Portable Politics: Creating New Space for Suffrage-ing Women."New Theatre Quarterly XVII: 4 (November 2001): 334-346.

Women in Comedy: Rewriting the British Theatrical Tradition. Ann Arbor: Michigan UP, 1991.

Women of Grace: James's Plays and the Comedy of Manners. Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1985.