Sarah Marsh Sr Professorial Lecturer Critical RGC Studies

Degrees: MFA, Poetry - University of Pittsburgh (2006); MA, Literature - UNC-Chapel Hill (2008); PhD, Literature - UNC-Chapel Hill (2013)
Favorite Spot on Campus: In the (actual) classroom.
Book Currently Reading: Oroonoko
Bio: Sarah Marsh is appointed jointly in AU's Department of Literature and Department of Critical Race, Gender, and Culture Studies, where she teaches at the intersections of literature, medical humanities, and the legal history of the body. Her book project, Novel Constitutions: Transatlantic Laws and the Fictions of Race, 1660-1800, identifies the early modern English ideal of embodied liberty--what the English called their "ancient constitution"--as an important source of white supremacy in the anglophone Atlantic. In support of this project, Dr. Marsh was a 2020 Penick Fellow at the Smithsonian Institute Libraries in Washington, DC.

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