Bio
Sarah Haughn received her PhD in Performance Studies with designated emphases in African American Studies and Studies in Practice and Performance from UC Davis in 2023. Her research interests include poetics, social reproduction, and black critical thought. Her current book project, provisionally titled Life Expectancy, poses a general critique of creativity via analyses of the antiblack gestational violence of poiesis. Haughn is also working on several shorter pieces that read reparative investments in belonging, home, and natality through the grammatical aporias presented by the black slave. Her research traverses discourses such as Afropessimism, Anticolonial Theory and Literature, Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Birth, Science and Technology Studies, Gender Studies, Poststructuralism, Critical Theory, and Psychoanalysis. She has teaching experience in African American Studies, African Studies, English, Rhetoric & Composition, Comparative Literature, Cinema and Digital Media Studies, and Sociology.