Sean Yeager joined Kenyon’s Science and Nature Writing program in 2025. They earned their Ph.D. in English at The Ohio State University, and had previously served as an assistant professor of physics and mathematics at Pacific Northwest College of Art. Yeager’s data-driven visualizations of time in narrative received the Paul Fourtier Prize for best paper by an emerging scholar at the 2019 Digital Humanities Conference. Yeager’s research on neurodivergent reading practices received honorable mention for the Nadal Prize at the 2022 International Conference on Narrative, and their research on neurodivergent temporalities received honorable mention for the Bruns Prize at the 2024 meeting of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts.

Areas of Expertise

Contemporary literature, narratology, neuroqueer theory, particle physics  

Education

2024 — Doctor of Philosophy from The Ohio State University

2019 — Master of Arts from Pacific Northwest College of Art

2013 — Master of Science from Texas A&M University

Courses Recently Taught

Each section of these first-year seminars approaches the study of literature through the exploration of a single theme in texts drawn from a variety of literary genres (such as tragedy, comedy, lyric poetry, epic, novel, short story, film and autobiography) and historical periods. Classes are small, offering intensive discussion and close attention to each student's writing. Students in each section are asked to work intensively on composition as part of a rigorous introduction to reading, thinking, speaking and writing about literary texts. During the semester, instructors assign frequent essays and may also require oral presentations, quizzes, examinations and research projects. This course is not open to juniors and seniors without permission of the department chair. Offered every year.