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Professor of French; Chair, Department of French; Director, NYU in Paris, 1998-2003
Ph.D., M.A., Rochester; B.A., Vassar
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Research Interests: French Theater: Theory, Production and Text; Francophone Literature (particularly theatrer); Feminist Theory and texts by women
Fellowships/Honors: Pickard-Bascom Professorship, U. of Wisconsin; Honorary Fellow, CNRS Laboratoire de Recherche sure les Arts du Spectacle; Award for the promotion of French theatre in Ameica, Ministère de la Culture of France; Distinguished Teaching Award, U. of Wisconsin; Rockefeller Residency at Bellagio; Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques; Collegiate Professor, NYU
Selected Works:
Theatre and Revolution
in France Since 1968
(Lexington: Kentucky: French Forum Monographs, 1977).
Françoise Sagan (Boston:
G.K. Hall, 1988)
Plays by French and
Francophone Women: A Critical Anthology
(with Christiane Makward) (Ann
Arbor: University of Michigan Press,
1994.)
Translator: “Drums on the Dam: In the Form of an Ancient Puppet Play
Performed by Actors” by Hélène Cixous, The Plays of Hélène Cixous. Ed. Eric Prenowitz (New York:
Routledge, 2003).
Women Writing
Africa: West Africa and the Sahel.
Eds. Diaw and Sutherland-Ady (New York:
The Feminist Press, 2004)
(Translations and text editing)
“New Forms for New Conflicts: Thinking About Ariane Mnouchkine and Tony
Kushner.” Contemporary Theatre Review. Vol 16:2, 2006.
Des Femmes Ecrivent
l’Afrique: l’Afrique de l’oeust et le
Sahel. Eds. Diaw and Sutherland-Ady
(Paris: Karthala, 2007) (With Christiane Owusu-Sarpong, translations,
text editing and general editing)
Ariane Mnouchkine. (New York and London: Routledge, 2007).
“Is There Such A Thing as Francophone African Stage
Textuality?” Yale French Studies, fall 2007.
“Women’s Voics, Women’s Bodies in José Pliya’s
Theatre.” L’Esprit Créateur, fall
2008.
“The Theatre of Hélène Cixous: Re-memberings, Re-fashionings, and
Revenants.” The Hélène Cixous Reader II.
Ed. Marta Segarra. (New
York: Columbia University Press, 2009).
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