B.A. (Hons) 1995 University of the Witwatersrand
M.A. 1999 SUNY Stony Brook
Ph.D. 2008 Duke University
On the PSU faculty since 2010

FIELDS: Postcolonial and global literature; world cinema; critical theory; modernism; ecocriticism

COURSES: English 300: Critical Approaches to Literature; English 368: Literature and Ecology; English 421/521: African Fiction; English 108: World Literature II; English 480/580: Postcolonial Modernism

BIOGRAPHY: Sarah Lincoln received her Ph.D. in English from Duke University in 2008 and taught at the University of Mississippi before joining the PSU faculty in 2010. Her teaching and research interests include postcolonial and other global literatures of the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries, with a particular focus on Africa; along with world cinema and critical theory. Her work focuses on the intersection of literature with economics and ecology in a global context. She is currently at work on a manuscript entitled Oikopoiesis: Postcolonial Literature and the Art of Survival, which studies the relationship between postcolonial aesthetics and global consumerism, waste, and sustainability.

PUBLICATIONS
“Conquering City: Spaces of Hope in Texaco.” Under consideration at small axe

“Consumption and dependency in Mandabi.” Journal of Commonwealth Literature (forthcoming, September 2010)

“Rotten English: Excremental Politics and Literary Witnessing.” Encountering the Nigerian State: Excess and Abjection, ed. Wale Adebanwi & Ebenezer Odabare. Palgrave-Macmillan, 2010

“Ben Okri’s Inflationary Modernism.” Handbook of Global Modernism, ed. Mark Wollaeger. Oxford University Press, forthcoming December 2010

“‘This is my history’: Trauma, Testimony and Nation-Building in the ‘New’ South Africa.” Trauma and Cinema: Cross-Cultural Explorations, ed. E. Ann Kaplan and Ban Wang. Hong Kong University Press, 2004