Sarah Howden

PhD Candidate
sarah.howden@mail.utoronto.ca

Campus

  • Downtown Toronto (St. George)

Fields of Study

  • American Literature
  • Environmental Humanities
  • Literary and Critical Theory
  • The Novel
  • Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Literature

Areas of Interest

  • The Anthropocene
  • Pastoral Literature
  • Extraction Communities

Biography

My dissertation explores the current state of the pastoral mode in contemporary American fiction, and asks what happens to this long tradition of writing in the Anthropocene.

Publications

  • "Looking Away From the Material Self: Collective Ethics in Neoliberal Environments," Studies In Canadian Literature, Vol. 45, No. 2, July 14, 2021, pp. 48-71

Cohort

  • 2018-2019