Bette Mandl, Professor Emerita

Bette Mandl

Professor Emerita

English Department
Suffolk University
41 Temple St.
Boston, MA 02114

Office: Fenton 119
Telephone: (617) 573-8277
Email: bmandl@suffolk.edu

Degrees
BA, Brooklyn College 1961
MA, New York University 1965
EdD, Boston University 1981

Research Interests
Modern American Drama, Neuroscience and the Arts, Women and Literature, Modern British Literature

Employment History
At Suffolk since 1976

Publications
“’Thinking Aloud’ in Eugene O’Neill’s Strange Interlude.” The Eugene O’Neill Review. 26(2004): 24-30.

"Broadway Boundaries:  Neil Simon and Popular Culture."  The Playwright’s Muse.  Ed. Joan Herrington.  NY:  Routledge, 2002. 78-89.

"Women’s Movement:  The Personal as Political in the Plays of Wendy Wasserstein."  Wendy Wasserstein:  A Casebook, ed. Claudia Barnett. NY: Garland, 1999. 3-11.

"Beyond Laughter and Forgetting: Echoes of the Holocaust in Neil Simon’s Lost in Yonkers." Neil Simon: A Casebook. Ed. Gary Konas. NY: Garland, 997. 69-77.

"’Alive Still in You’: Memory and Silence in A Shayna Maidel." Staging Difference: Cultural Pluralism in American Theatre and Drama. Ed. Marc Maufort. N.Y.: Peter Lang Publishing, 1995.  259-265.

"Gender and Design in Eugene O’Neill’s Strange Interlude." The Eugene O’Neill Review. 19 (Spring and Fall, 1995):123-128.

"Desire under the Elms." Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Vol. 49. Ed. Laurie Di Mauro.  Detroit,  MI: Gale Research Inc., 1993. 296-298.

"Absence as Presence: The Second Sex in The Iceman Cometh." Eugene O’Neill: The Critical Response.  Ed. John Houchin. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood UP, 1993. 184-190.

"Disturbing Women: Wendy Kesselman’s My Sister in this House." Modern American Drama: The Female Canon.  Ed. June Schlueter.  Rutherford, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 1990. 246-253.

"Feminism, Postfeminism and The Heidi Chronicles." Studies in the Humanities 17 (December,1990): 120-128.

"Theatricality and Otherness in God’s All Chillun Got Wings." Feminist Re-readings of Modern American  Drama. Ed. June Schlueter. Rutherford, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 1989. 48-56.

"Wrestling with the Angel in the House: Mary Tyrone’s Long Journey." The Eugene O’Neill Newsletter XII (Winter 1988): 19-24.

"Family Ties: Landscape and Gender in Desire Under the Elms." The Eugene O’Neill Newsletter XI (Winter 1987): 19-23.

"Images of Transformation: Joyce’s Ulysses in Mid-Lfe." Journal of Mental Imagery 10 (Summer 1986): 79-86.

"The Politics of Representation in The Marriages between Zones Three, Four and Five." Notes on Contemporary Literature XV (March 1985): 4-5.

"Absence as Presence: The Second Sex in The Iceman Cometh." The Eugene O’Neill Newsletter 6 (Summer/Fall 1982): 10-15.

"Martha Quest: The Dynamics of Mood."  Doris Lessing Newsletter 5 (Winter, 1981): 3-4.

Courses Taught
ENG 103 Advanced Freshman English
ENG 216 World Literature in English
ENG 343 The 19th Century English Novel
ENG  366 Modern British Fiction
ENG 387 Women and Literature
Seminar for Freshman 101