Associate Professor Sarah Senk joined the Department of Culture and Communication
in 2016. Her research focuses on modern and contemporary global English literature
and memory studies.
Articles, Reviews, and Other Media
“The Trouble with Viewing 9/11 and the Pandemic Through a Wartime Lens,” The Washington Post (September 9, 2022) [co-authored with Lila Nordstrom]
"The Memory Exchange: Public Mourning at the National 9/11 Memorial Museum," Canadian Review of American Studies Vol. 48, No. 2 (2018), pp. 254-276
"Mourning's Spiral: Trauma, Time, and Memory in Derek Walcott's Omeros," Symbolism: An International Annual of Critical Aesthetics Vol. 16 (October 2016), pp. 35-51
"Insurgent Testimonies: Witnessing Colonial Trauma in Modern and Anglophone Literature
by Nicole Rizzuto (review)," Contemporary Literature Vol. 57, No. 3 (Fall 2016), pp. 453-461
"Attention to the Text: Delay and the ‘ADD Generation,'" Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy, Vol. 25, No. 2, Teaching Disability (Winter 2016), pp. 78-95
"The Glass Bowl of Memory: Plotting 1993 at the National 9/11 Memorial Museum," Post 45: Contemporaries (June 2015)
"On This Day, Nothing Happened," Slate Magazine (June 15, 2015)
"Virtual Witnessing," Audio Podcast, The Wilson Centre, University of Aberdeen (November 5, 2014)
"No Man's Land: Jamaican Guestworkers in America and the Global History of Deportable
Labor by Cindy Hahamovitch (roundtable review with Abigail Ward and Henrice Altink),
Journal of American Studies Vol. 48, No. 1 (February 2014), pp. 309-319
"Dying for Time: Proust, Woolf, Nabokov by Martin Hägglund (review)," MLN: Modern Language Notes Vol. 128, No. 5 (December 2013), pp. 1207-1211
"Lost in Space: Is it really possible to memorialize 9/11 in the heart of New York's
financial district?" The American Prospect (September 12, 2011)
