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Sarah Tanner
Title: | Graduate Student PhD Student, Graduate Teaching Assistant |
Department: | English Language and Literature College of Arts and Sciences |
Email: | St48@email.sc.edu |
Pronouns:
she/her
Education:
BA in English Literature (Pacific Union College, 2021)
Field:
20th Century American Literature, ecocriticism, affect theory
Biography:
I received my undergraduate degree in English with an emphasis in British and American literature from Pacific Union College in California's Napa Valley. There, I developed a love for American 20th-century literature, especially the novels of John Steinbeck, which lend themselves to ecocritical analysis and the study of affective ecologies. I currently serve as the graduate student delegate for the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, and I teach First Year English, as well. When I'm not reading and researching, I spend most of my time outdoors, hiking with my cream retriever, Hemingway.
My most recent publications explore literary entanglements of environments and affect and can be found in ISLE: Interdisciplinary studies in Literature and the Environment, Western American Literature, Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, and Victorian Culture and Experiential Learning.