Assistant Professor of English

About

  • Office Hours

    T/Th 2-3pm (& 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 2022 Tee A. Corrine Fellow (University of Oregon), the 2024 Friedman Feminist Press Grant Recipient (Colorado State University), a 2026 Archival Fellow (Smith College), and a 2026-2027 Blake Center for Engaged Humanities Fellow (Colorado State University).

Publications

Peer-Reviewed Articles

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

“Feminist Archival Pedagogies: Possibilities for Embodied and Local Research Practices,” (with Hannah Taylor), Peitho, forthcoming

“Collaborating with the Past: Artmaking, Archives, and Undergraduate Research,” Academic Labor: Research and Artistry,(with Clarissa Trapp), forthcoming, fall 2026

“Reading Across Archival Donations: Janis Walworth Camp Trans Collection and Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival Records,” Writers: Craft and Context: Creative, Embodied and Activist Approaches to Archival Research: Fostering a More Inclusive Future, forthcoming, August 2026

“Tracing Separatism: Olivia Travel’s Historical Politics and Contemporary Travelers,” Peitho, forthcoming, fall 2026

“Building Curiosity: Students in University Archives,” Journal of Multimodal Rhetorics, forthcoming spring 2026

“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