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Author Sarah Cullen

Sarah Cullen

Sarah Cullen is an IRC-funded PhD candidate in Trinity College Dublin. She is also a 2017-2018 Postgraduate Fellow at the Eccles Centre for American Studies. Her research area is representations of night in nineteenth-century American literature. She is a Postgraduate and Early Career Representative for the Irish Association for American Studies and will have a chapter on Frederick Douglass published this year in Palgrave Macmillan’s collection Surveillance, Race, Culture.

“[N]ow There Ought to Be a Watchman”: Curfews and Race in U.S. Literature

Sarah Cullen
Articles, Issue 9 2020
Caroline Lee Hentz’s 1854 pro-slavery novel The Planter’s Northern Bride was one of the many responses to the sensational success of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin (published two years earlier). In H... Read More...

Review: Catrin Gersdorf and Juliane Braun, eds., America After Nature: Democracy, Culture, Environment

Sarah Cullen
Issue 7 2018, Reviews
Gersdorf, Catrin, and Juliane Braun, eds. America After Nature: Democracy, Culture, Environment. Universitätsverlag Winter, 2016. American Studies 270. What is the State of the Union, what the state of US-Amer... Read More...

The Search for a Mother in Toni Morrison’s Paradise

Sarah Cullen
Articles, Issue 4 2015
Winner of the 2013 WTM Riches Essay Prize   “It seems to me that really truthful American novels would have the heroes and heroines alike looking for mothers instead . This needn’t be embarrassing. It’... Read More...
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