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Sarah Tanner
| Title: | Graduate Student PhD Student, Graduate Instructional 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 deep love for American 20th-century literature, especially the novels of John Steinbeck,
which lend themselves to ecocritical analysis and the study of affective ecologies.
When I'm not reading and researching, I spend most of my time outdoors, hiking with
my cream retriever, Hemingway, or baking for friends and family.
My most recent publication can be found in ISLE: Interdisciplinary studies in Literature and the Environment, and is titled "Under Strange and Evil Stars: Ecologies of Pain in Steinbeck's 'To A God Unknown.'"