Areas of Research/Interest: 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

Select Publications:

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).