Sarah Sutherland

Senior Advisor to the President
Lecturer in English

Specialization
Shakespeare; Shakespeare on film; plays by Shakespeare's contemporaries; sixteenth- and seventeenth-century poetry; self-referential texts

Sarah Sutherland's primary field of interest is the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. She is the author of Masques in Jacobean Tragedy (AMS Press), which deals with masques within plays. The Tempest is the best-known example of a play containing an (interrupted) masque. There were many other internal masques in the drama of the period, most with deadly consequences.

As Senior Advisor to the President, Sutherland supports the work of President Lynn Pasquerella and the Mount Holyoke College Board of Trustees. She has particular responsibilities for planning and assessment. Before joining the President's staff in 2010, she was associate dean of the faculty for twelve years. Prior to that, Sutherland served as dean of studies and dean of freshmen.

Sutherland has taught occasional English courses while serving as an administrator. In fall 2010, she will be teaching a first-year seminar on medical narratives.

Publications

• Masques in Jacobean Tragedy (New York: AMS Press, 1982)
• "Not or I see more neede: The Wife of Noah in the Chester, York, and Towneley Cycles," in Shakespeare and the Dramatic Tradition, ed. W. R. Elton and William B. Long (Newark: U Delaware Press, 1989)