Martha C. Carpentier is a retired professor of modern British and Irish literature at Seton Hall University, New Jersey. She is a co-founder of the International Susan Glaspell Society and has been vice-president and president of the society. She lives in Melbourne Beach, Florida. Emeline Jouve is an assistant professor of American literature and culture at Champollion University and Toulouse Jean-Jaurès University, France. She is the author of several articles on American drama and theater and is the editor of “Staging Mobility in the United-States” for the online journal Miranda (2011). She lives in Toulouse, France.

• Table of ContentsIntroduction: An Iconic Work at 100 Years (Martha C. Carpentier and Emeline Jouve)Part I: Scholars’ VoicesForensic Science and the Aesthetics of Affect in “A Jury of Her Peers” (Catherine Q. Forsa)Seeing, Looking, Pointing: A Linguistic Reading of Trifles and “A Jury of Her Peers” (Marie-Pierre ­Maechling-Mounie)Silent Partners: The “Trifling” Nature of Language in the Theatre of Susan Glaspell and Samuel Beckett (Linda ­Ben-Zvi)Susan Glaspell’s Radicalization of Women’s Crime Fiction: Female Reading Strategies from Anna Katharine Green to Sara Paretsky (Ilka Saal and Mareike Dolata)Powerful Gazes: The Right to Look in Film Adaptations of Trifles and “A Jury of Her Peers” (Noelia ­Hernando-Real)Susan Glaspell’s Gendered Detectives: Suspense and the Threat to Masculine Identity in Radio and Screen Adaptations from 1930 to 1961 (Drew Eisenhauer)Part II: Practitioners’ VoicesInterviewsTrifles and “A Jury of Her Peers” on Film: Interview with Filmmakers Sally Heckel and Pamela Gaye Walker (Sharon Friedman)Producing Susan Glaspell’s Plays: Interview with Founders of the Orange Tree Theatre, Sam Walters and Auriol Smith (Barbara Ozieblo)Trifles in Production at the Orange Tree Theatre, 2008: Interview with Director Helen Leblique (Barbara Ozieblo)Adaptations / CreationsSometimes I Sing: Freeing the Voice of Minnie Wright in Trifles (Milbre Burch)From Dramatic Time to Operatic Time: Creating an Opera Libretto from the Play Trifles (John F. McGrew and John G. Bilotta)Sometimes I Sing: An Original Dramatic Monolgue Inspired by Trifles (Milbre Burch)Trifles: An Original Operatic Libretto (John F. McGrew)BibliographyAbout the ContributorsIndex

“Carpentier and Jouve, are experts in this field and have conducted extensive research on Glaspell’s theater...a must”—Revista de Estudios Norteamericanos.