Seventh AMS Conference

Seventh International Conference at San Joaquin Delta College, CA, March 7-9, 2002: “Arthur Miller, The Mirror of Modernity: The Universal Impact of an American Playwright.”

Keynote Speaker:

Christopher Bigsby, “Arthur Miller as a Jewish Writer.”

Papers Presented:


Carlos Campo, “Cornering Hope: Quentin as Sisphean Hero.” 


Stephen Marino, “Language and Metaphor in After the Fall.” 


Jane Dominik, “Before and After the Fall: A View of Arthur Miller’s Drama.” 


Matthew Roudané, “Arthur Miller and the Modern Stage.” 


Lew Livesay, “The Retrospective Future in Miller’s Later Works.” 


Rick Tharp, “Arthur Miller’s Commercial Radio Work, 1941-1947.” 


J. Chris Westgate, “The Semiotics of Salem: Witches, ‘the Old Boy,’ and Giles Corey in The Crucible.”


Leslie Edman, “‘I want Swiss cheese’: Resistance to Change in Arthur Miller’s Drama.” 


Stan Kozikowski, “Death of a Salesman and Hamlet Once Again.” 


Ryan Poll, “‘And what’s the cure?’: The Ethical Importance of Neighbors in Arthur Miller’s Work.” 


Susanna Rodriguez, “Ther’mom’meter: Mothers as Reflections of Their Families in Arthur Miller’s Drama.” 


Karen Wilson, “Linda Loman: Miller’s Yiddishe Mama.” 


Bruce Gilman, “‘Attention must be paid’: The Postmodern Fate of Willy Loman.” 


Samuel Bernstein, “The Motif of Boasting in Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman.” 


Martha Rice, “More To Be Censored Than Pitied: Willy Loman, the Passive-Aggressive Male Prototype.”

Participants also attended a staged reading from The Price, scenes performed from A View From the Bridge, Death of a Salesman, and All My Sons, and a college production of After the Fall.