Assistant Professor of English

About

  • Office Hours

    T/Th 12:30-2 pm (& by appointment)

  • Role

    Faculty

  • Position

    • Assistant Professor of English

  • Concentration

    • Writing, Rhetoric, and Social Change
    • Rhetoric, Writing, and Literacy

  • Department

    • English

  • Education

    • Ph.D. Rhetoric, Communication, and Information Design (Clemson University)
    • MFA Poetry (Converse University)
    • MA Rhetoric, Composition and Literary Studies (Purdue University)

Biography

Canadian-American academic Dr. Sarah Cooper is a scholar and poet. She is the author of two poetry collections: Permanent Marker (Paper Nautilus, 2020) and 89% (Clemson University Press 2022).  Her poems also appear in Lunch, Sinister Wisdom, Iron Horse and in Poem-A-Day.

Her interdisciplinary research resides at the intersection of archives, rhetoric, gender and queer theory, and sexuality studies. Dr. Cooper is the 2024 Friedman Feminist Press Grant Recipient (Colorado State University) and the 2022 Tee A. Corrine Fellow (University of Oregon).

Publications

“Living With and Fighting Against: Crip Futurity in Audre Lorde’s The Cancer Journals,” Journal of Multimodal Rhetorics, June 2024

“Tracing Womyn-Born-Womyn: Into the Archive with Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival,” Journal of Lesbian Studies, May 2024

“’A very secure way for women to travel’: Olivia Travel and Strategic Separatism,” Peitho, forthcoming

“’[We] share a special kind of intimacy’”: Country Lesbians, Separatism and Nonmonogamy,” Queer (Im)possibilities in Rhetoric and Writing Studies, forthcoming

“Radical Feminism,” Feminism and Feminist Movements in America: An Encyclopedia of Ideals and Activism, forthcoming

“Woman-Identified Woman,” Feminism and Feminist Movements in America: An Encyclopedia of Ideals and Activism, forthcoming