Sarah Haughn

Sarah Haughn

  • Assistant Teaching Professor

Contact

shaughn@iastate.edu

515-294-2180

Ross
527 Farm House Ln
Ames IA
50011-1054

Bio

Courses

English

4500 Seminar in Literary Genres: Black Poetics and the Rule of Law

3100 Rhetorical Analysis

2500 Written, Oral, Visual, and Electronic Communication

2120 Fundamentals of Public Speaking

1500 Critical Thinking and Communication

Theatre

THTRE 3580 Oral Interpretation

Previous teaching experience

African American Studies, African Studies, English (African American Literature, Poetry, Fiction), Comparative Literature, Cinema and Digital Media Studies, and Sociology

Research interests

Poetics, Social Reproduction, Black Critical Thought

Current research

My current book project, provisionally titled Life Expectancy, poses a general critique of creativity via analyses of the antiblack gestational violence of poiesis. I am also working on several shorter pieces that read reparative investments in belonging, home, and natality through the grammatical aporias presented by the black slave. My research traverses discourses such as Afropessimism, Anticolonial Theory and Literature, Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Birth, Science and Technology Studies, Poststructuralism, Critical Theory, and Psychoanalysis.

Education

PhD, Performance Studies, UC Davis

MA, English, UC Davis

BA, Human Ecology, College of the Atlantic

Selected Publications

  • “On the Trouble with Making Kin.” Topia: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, vol. 49, 2025, pp. 224-46