Gayle Wald is a professor of English and American Studies at George Washington University and a Guggenheim Fellow.

[1][2] From 1994-95 she was Visiting Assistant Professor of English and American Studies at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut.

is the basis for the documentary film Sister Rosetta Tharpe: The Godmother of Rock & Roll, directed by Mick Csaky.

This opened at the Pasadena Playhouse in July 2017 and the Seattle Repertory Theater in November 2019.

Another musical, Marie and Rosetta by George Brant at the Atlantic Theater Company uses the story.