Sarah holds a PhD from the University of Arizona. Her research and teaching specializations include American literature through the long 19th century, Mark Twain, transatlantic narrative fiction, rhetoric and writing, multimodality, and writing center studies. Her most recent publications address Mark Twain’s western insults and travesties of Romeo and Juliet in 19th and early 20th c. American newspapers. She has also published on the works of such various authors as Melville, Poe, Wharton, Austen, Golding, and Angelou, and she has contributed to volumes on Feminism, LGBTQ literature, children’s literature, and the American novel. At Georgia Tech, Sarah teaches multimodal communication in the Ivan Allan College of Liberal Arts and serves as a Professional Consultant in the Naugle Communication Center. As a consultant, she enjoys helping communicators find and utilize their personal voice, construct public-facing research, and tackle large or challenging writing projects (such as a thesis, dissertation, or academic journal article).

Specialties: writing style, visual rhetoric, biomedical research, APA style guidelines, personal statements, academic and professional writing, asynchronous (written response) tutoring