Sarah STUNDEN
Sarah Stunden completed her Ph.D. from the Department of English at Ï㽶ÊÓƵ in the fall of 2018. Her SSHRC-funded Masters work at the University of Toronto focused on radical homosociality in Black American oral and literary production. Her J.A. Bombardier CGS-funded doctoral thesis, "Clairvoyant Bodies: Bodily Anachrony and Trauma in Contemporary North American Literature," centres on gendered and racial traumas in post-WWI literature, questioning the role of the suffering body as a clairvoyant narratological device cable of unsettling oppressive societal narratives through acts of non-verbal storytelling.
Ph.D., Ï㽶ÊÓƵ (fall 2018)
M.A., University of Toronto
B.A., Trent University
Feminist and racial narratology; the fictional body and non-verbal story-telling; literature of Jim Crow; storytelling and the Canadian Truth and Reconciliation Commission; James Baldwin; Eden Robinson.