Sarah Blackwood is associate professor of English at Pace University. She researches and teaches 19th-century American literature and visual culture and has written about gender, popular culture, motherhood, and bodies for the New Republic, Slate, The Hairpin, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. With Sarah Mesle, she is co-editor of Avidly and the Avidly Reads book series, forthcoming from NYU Press.
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Warren Invites Us In: On the Selfie Line
Sarah Blackwood ponders what exactly it is we're talking about when we talk about Elizabeth Warren's infamous selfie line....

Encores of Love and Listening: Sarah Blackwood and Peter Coviello Discuss “Long Players”
“The book is a kind of love letter. Or, more truthfully, several love letters, sewn together into one.”...

Embodied Narratives: The Intersection of Fashion and Literature
An interview with Yahdon Israel, the creator of the #literaryswag movement....

“Room” Is the “Crash” of Feminism
Just as "Crash" was a racist exercise in trying to exorcise racism, "Room" is a misogynistic exploration of the suffering misogyny causes women....

The Woman Wild
Marilynne Robinson’s 'Lila'...

Dance Dance Revelation: On “So You Think You Can Dance”
A strange concoction of high art, hazy humanitarianism, and athletic genius....
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