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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

Editor of

  • 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):

  • "," Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature: Vol. 41: Iss. 2, Article 11, 2017.

  • 鈥淒u Romantisme 脿 propos des d茅buts de Mlle Rachel,鈥� Dix-neuf, vol 20, issue 2, 2016.

  • Sachs, L. and McCready, S., 鈥淪tages of Battle: Theater and War in the Plays of Bernhardt, Raynal and Anouilh,鈥� The French Review, 87:4, 2014.

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

  • 鈥淒u Romantisme 脿 propos des d茅buts de Mlle Rachel,鈥� Dix-neuf, vol 20, issue 2, 2016.

  • Sachs, L. and McCready, S., 鈥淪tages of Battle: Theater and War in the Plays of Bernhardt, Raynal and Anouilh,鈥� The French Review, 87:4, 2014.

  • 鈥�,鈥� Lingua Romana, volume 11, issue 1, 2013.

  • "From Verbal to Visual: Moli猫re 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 Com茅die-Fran莽aise," 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 脿 Marie," Claudel Studies, Volume XXVI, Numbers 1 & 2, 1999.

  • "La Violence de l'amour: Le suicide et le r锚ve 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 Barb茅rine," Romance Notes, volume XXXVIII, number 1, Fall 1997.

PUBLIC HUMANITIES:

Various:

  • Messenger, D., McCready, S. Mapping Confederate Memory in Mobile, exhibit, 2024.
  • McCready, S., Trout, S., Messenger, D. "Memory in the Public Square," expert panel for the Semmes Statue Committee of the Mobile History Museum, September 3, 2020.
  • McCready, S. and Trout, S., War and Remembrance on the Alabama Gulf Coast, 2017. .
  • Trout, S. and McCready, S., "Harlem Hellfighter: The Story of James Reese Europe," Mobile Bay Magazine, September, 2017.
  • McCready, S. (Producer) War and Memory Podcast, 2016 鈥� present. Podcast Website.
  • McCready, S. (Producer and host) The Commons: Podcast for the Common Read at USA, 2016-2017. .

 

Lectures:

  • "James Reese Europe: the Man: The Man Who Brought Jazz to France" Historic Mobile Preservation Society, Oakleigh, March, 2023.
  • "Harlem Hellfighter: James Reese Europe," History Museum of Mobile Lunch and Learn, May, 2021.
  • "Commemorative Acts: French Theater and the Great War," Alliance Fran莽aise de Mobile, March 4, 2018.
  • "Lafayette, We are Here," Daughters of the American Revolution Alabama Day Celebration, December 9, 2017.
  • "The Meaning of the Poppy," Daughters of the American Revolution/Daughters of 1812, April 6, 2017.
  • "Introducing Homegoing: 2017-2018 Common Read Selection," Mobile Rotary Club, April 2017.
  • "Introducing The Complete Maus: 2016-2017 Common Read Selection," Mobile Rotary Club, April 2016.
  • "Enter the Doctor: The Physician in French Comedy," Mobile Medical Museum, December 2013.
  • "Occupation and Memory: Roslyn Bosch鈥檚 La Rafle," Mobile Jewish Film Festival, January 2012.
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Courses

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