Dr. Andrea J. Nouryeh is Associate Professor of Speech and Theatre and current Coordinator of the African Studies Board, of which she has been an active member since 1993.  Although her BA from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and MA from Columbia University are in English, she completed a PhD. in Performance Studies from New York University in 1987 and course work for an MA in African American Studies from Columbia in 2003.  Dr. Nouryeh has been at St. Lawrence University since the fall of 1991 and teaches courses in script analysis, theatre history, and dramatic literature with specific courses focusing on African American, South African and West African playwrights.