Title: Graduate Student

Department: English

Office: Buttrick 4-49
Email: sarah.kersh@vanderbilt.edu

Degrees

• M.A. Vanderbilt University
• B.A. Muhlenberg College; Allentown, Pennsylvania

Research Area

• Feminist and Queer Theory
• Poetics and the Visual Arts
• 19th-Century American and British Lit

Current Research

• Naked Novels: Victorian Amatory Sonnet Sequences and the Problem of Marriage (dissertation in progress)

Current Courses

• S09: ENGL 100-3 Finding the "I" in Identity and Ideology
• F08: ENGL 102W-4 Close Encounters: Aesthetic Experiences and Emerging Identities
• S08: ENGL 102W-19 Artists, Dreamers and Murderers
• F07: ENGL 102W-11 Bodies in Motion

Current Positions

• Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities, Graduate Student Fellow 2009-2010

Previous Positions

• English Graduate Student Association (EGSA) President
• Queer Theory Reading Group Co-Facilitator 2006-2008
• Vice President of Academic Affairs, Graduate Student Council 2006-2008
• Core Member, Graduate Honor Council 2006-2008
• English Department Representative, Graduate Student Council 2005

Professional Honors

• Jacob K. Javits Fellow, 2005-2009
• Rose Alley Press Achievement Award, 2008
• Phi Beta Kappa, 2003