Assistant Professor of German Language & Literature
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
M.A., Middlebury College
B.A. Smith College
Professor Sutherland teaches German language and literature courses that reflect her interests in German drama, gender studies, and issues of race. She also teaches German culture courses for students with advanced proficiency in the language.
Professor Sutherland encourages students to study abroad and takes regular research trips to Berlin to study representations of black women in eighteenth-century German plays.
Recent Courses
Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm
Intermediate German II
Selected Publications
Sutherland, W. H. (2002). Staging blackness: Race, aesthetics and the
black female in two Eighteenth Century German dramas, Ernst Lorenz
Rathlef's Die Mohrinn zu Hamburg (1775) and Karl Friedrich Wilhelm
Ziegler's Die Mohrinn (1801).