Department: English

Office: n/a
Email: sarahkersh(at)gmail.com

Curriculum Vitae

Degrees

• Ph.D. Vanderbilt University, 2010
• M.A. Vanderbilt University, 2006
• B.A. Muhlenberg College; Allentown, Pennsylvania

Research Area

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

Current Research

• Naked Novels: Victorian Amatory Sonnet Sequences and the Problem of Marriage (Dissertation)

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

• NAVSA 2011 Conference Coordinator

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 Societies

• MLA
• NAVSA

Professional Honors

• Edgar Hill Duncan Award, April 2010
• Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities, Graduate Student Fellow 2009-2010
• Jacob K. Javits Fellow, 2005-2009
• Rose Alley Press Achievement Award, 2008
• Phi Beta Kappa, 2003

Publications

• Queering Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Sonnets from the Portuguese (under review)
• 'Drawing on the tomb for text': Marriage and Poetic Form in George Meredith's Modern Love (in progress)