Sarah Copland came to Kenyon as a Visiting Assistant Professor in 2011 after spending two years in the Department of English at the Ohio State University as a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada postdoctoral fellow and visiting scholar with Project Narrative. Before moving to Ohio, she completed her Ph.D. and taught courses in English at the University of Toronto, where she received university-wide and departmental teaching awards. Her areas of research specialization include literary modernism and interdisciplinary narrative theory (particularly rhetorical theory and cognitive science). She is currently completing a book entitled Front Matters: The Rhetoric and Pedagogy of Modernist Prefaces.

Education

Ph.D. University of Toronto
B.A.H. Queen's University

Selected Publications

"Conceptual Blending in The Waves: 'A mind thinking.'" Blending and the Study of Narrative. Ed. Ralf Schneider and Marcus Hartner. Narratologia. Berlin New York: de Gruyter, forthcoming 2011.

"Reading in the Blend: Collaborative Conceptual Blending in the Silent Traveller Narratives." Narrative 16.2 (2008): 140-62.

Bryant, Marsha, Suzanne W. Churchill, Sarah Copland, David M. Earle, Alan Golding, Michael Sayeau, and Helen Sword. "Making It New: Innovative Approaches to Teaching Modernism." Modernism/Modernity 16.3 (2009): 471-95.

Courses Taught

IPHS 113: Odyssey of the West
IPHS 114: Odyssey of the West