Susan McCready

Susan McCready

Professor, French
Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literature

Education

  • B. A. Swarthmore College 1992
  • M.A. University of Pennsylvania 1995
  • Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania 1998

Research Interests

Co-Director, Center for the Study of War and Memory

Associate Editor for French Romance Studies

  • Nineteenth-Century French Literature
  • Twentieth-Century French Literature
  • French Theater
  • Performance Studies
  • Great War Literature

Publications

BOOKS

  • Staging France between the World Wars: Performance, Politics, and the Transformation of the Theatrical Canon, Lexington Books, 2016.

  • The Limits of Performance in the French Romantic Theater, Durham Modern Language Series, 2007.

  • Novel Stages: Drama and the Novel in Nineteenth-Century France, ed. with Pratima Prasad, University of Delaware Press, 2007.

ARTICLES (recent):

  • "French Theater and the Memory of the Great War," Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature: Vol. 41: Iss. 2, Article 11, 2017.

  • “Du Romantisme à propos des débuts de Mlle Rachel,” Dix-neuf, vol 20, issue 2, 2016.

  • Sachs, L. and McCready, S., “Stages of Battle: Theater and War in the Plays of Bernhardt, Raynal and Anouilh,” The French Review, 87:4, 2014.

  • "The Secret Self: A Reading of Musset's André del Sarto," Nineteenth-Century French Studies, Winter 2006, volume 35 (2).

  • “Du Romantisme à propos des débuts de Mlle Rachel,” Dix-neuf, vol 20, issue 2, 2016.

  • Sachs, L. and McCready, S., “Stages of Battle: Theater and War in the Plays of Bernhardt, Raynal and Anouilh,” The French Review, 87:4, 2014.

  • Revisiting Mérimée in Performance / Revising the Canon of French Romantic Theater,” Lingua Romana, volume 11, issue 1, 2013.

  • "From Verbal to Visual: Molière Performance Between the Wars," Contemporary French Civilization, vol. 30, no. 2, Summer/Fall 2006.

  • "Power and Sexual Congress in Alfred de Musset's Lorenzaccio," Romance Notes, vol. 44, no. 1, Fall 2003.

  • "The Compromise of Commemoration: The 1927 Centennial of Romanticism at the Comédie-Française," Modern Drama, vol. 46, no. 2, Summer 2003.

  • "Performing Time in the Revolutionary Theater," Dalhousie French Studies, vol. 55, Summer 2001.

  • "Sisters, Doubles, Rivals: Fairy-tale Archetypes in L'Annonce faite à Marie," Claudel Studies, Volume XXVI, Numbers 1 & 2, 1999.

  • "La Violence de l'amour: Le suicide et le rêve utopique dans Indiana," George Sand Studies, Vol. XVI, Nos. 1 et 2, 1997.

  • "Performing Stability: The Problem of Proof in Alfred de Musset's Un Caprice and La Quenouille de Barbérine," Romance Notes, volume XXXVIII, number 1, Fall 1997.

See More

Courses

Teaches all levels of French language, culture and literature classes.