25 Thanks to the research of Regents Professor Perry Gethner, French female playwrights have a prominent place in history books. Gethner, who heads the foreign languages and literature department, has devoted more than 30 years to resurrecting the history of the playwrights. For years, their work was totally absent from anthologies or relegated to just a few pages in history books. Gethner has several other ongoing research projects. His articles focus on a variety of topics including French staging and acting conventions, musical comedy, early opera libretto, religious and didactic themes in drama, and comparisons of male and female authors. He also has published critical editions and translations of plays by such authors as Jean Rotrou and Voltaire, plus several anthologies of works by female playwrights. He earned a bachelor’s from Carleton College in Minnesota and a master’s and doctorate from Yale University. Gary Lawson PORTRAIT “Women have always played a key role in European literature, however, it could be argued that at one point there was an attempt to sweep them under the rug.” Perry Gethner FAE RAWDON NORRIS PROFESSORSHIP IN HUMANITIES
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