Sarah Sutherland

Associate Dean of Faculty
Lecturer in English

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

As associate dean of faculty, Sarah Sutherland assists the dean of faculty with matters of academic policy and faculty support. She also teaches occasionally in the English Department, recently offering a first-year seminar, Reading Symptoms, a study of writing by and about patients, physicians, and the communities and cultures that shape their stories.

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 (there is a masque in, for instance, The Tempest). In her first decade at Mount Holyoke, Sutherland served as dean of freshmen, dean of studies, and associate professor of English. She left to become assistant dean of the faculty at Amherst College, where she stayed for six years. She returned to Mount Holyoke in 1998 to serve as associate dean to dean of faculty Donal O'Shea.

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)