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Linda Ben-Zvi is Professor emerita in English and Theatre, Colorado State University; She was a John N. Stern Distinguished Professor at Colorado; Senior Fellow at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; the National Endowment for the Humanities; the Newberry Library, Chicago; and was a Lady Davis Professor at Hebrew University. She was elected President of the International Samuel Beckett Society (1988-90) and elected for a second term beginning in 2006.

Education

B.A. English and Philosophy, Boston University
M.A. English, New York University
Ph.D. English, University of Oklahoma

Selected Publications & Professional Works

Books

Susan Glaspell: Her Life and Times (Oxford University Press);

The Road to the Temple by Susan Glaspell, ed. (McFarland Pub., Inc.);

Drawing on Beckett, ed. (Assaph Books);

Susan Glaspell: Essays on her Theater and Fiction, ed. (University of Michigan Press);

Theatre in Israel, ed. (University of Michigan Press);

Women in Beckett, ed. (University of Illinois Press);

Samuel Beckett (G.K. Hall);

Recent Articles

The Goat, or Who is Edward? Teatron; An Israeli Quarterly for Contemporary Theatre, 9 (October 2002), 11-16. (in Hebrew)

Not I: Through a Tube Starkly. Anthology of Drama. New York: Henry Holt, 1998. Rpt. in Samuel Beckett. Ed. Jennifer Birkett and Kate Ince. London: Longman, 2000. Rpt. Samuel Beckett Collection of Essays. Frankfurt: Suhrkamp Verlag, 2005. (in German).

The Provincetown Players: The Success that Failed. In Essays in Honor of Andrew Kennedy. Oslo: Bergen University Press, 2000. Rpt. in Eugene ONeill Review, (forthcoming).

Becketts Bodies. In Samuel Beckett Studies. Ed. Lois Oppenheim. London: Palgrave, 2004.

"'Playing the Cloud Circuit': Edward Albee's Vaudeville Show." In Edward Albee Critical Studies. Ed. Stephen Bottoms. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Arthur Miller in Israel / Israel in Arthur Miller. In Arthur Millers Theatre. Ed. Enoch Brater. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005.

Generational Shifts in American Jewish Theatre. In Jewish Theatre. Ed. Paolo Puppa. London: Berg, (forthcoming ).

The Two Sams: Johnson and Beckett, Ten Years of the Samuel Beckett Honorary Lectures: Trinity College, Dublin. Dublin: Trinity College Special Samuel Beckett Centenary Publication, (forthcoming 2006).

"The Bird of Paradise Hovers over O'Neill," The Eugene O'Neill Review," (forthcoming)