Sarah Marsh Sr Professorial Lecturer Literature

Degrees: MFA, Poetry - University of Pittsburgh (2006); MA, Literature - UNC-Chapel Hill (2008); PhD, Literature - UNC-Chapel Hill (2013)
Book Currently Reading: Black Prometheus: Race and Radicalism in the Age of Atlantic Slavery
Bio: Sarah Marsh is appointed jointly in AU's Department of Literature and Department of Critical Race and Gender Studies, where she teaches at the intersections of literature, medical humanities, and the legal history of the body. Her book project, Constituting Britons: Law, Medicine, and the Roots of White Supremacy in Anglo-American Culture, identifies the early modern English ideal of embodied liberty--the "ancient constitution"--as an important source of white supremacy in the anglophone Atlantic. In support of this project, Dr. Marsh is a 2020 Margaret Henry Dabney Penick Fellow at the Smithsonian Institute Libraries in Washington, DC.

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