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.