Sarah Sillin

Professor Sillin (she/her) is an assistant professor of Transnational American Literature and affiliate faculty member for Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. She regularly teaches the core course Principles of English, along with a variety of classes in American literature. While her courses explore a range of topics, they often focus on 19th-century writers, how they imagined everyday life, and what they saw as America's place in the larger world. Her research centers on such subjects as sentimental novels about young girls growing up in early America, political cartoons on the US Civil War, and satires of the US fascination with annexing Cuba. Currently, she also co-edits the interdisciplinary journal of undergraduate research IJURCA.