Sarah Wilhoit

Biography

Sarah Wilhoit (she/her) is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Integrated Humanities whose research focuses on affect theory, feminist utopian literature, and women’s speculative fiction. She teaches interdisciplinary seminars, literature, and women’s and gender studies classes across departments. She is currently working on an article titled “The Main Point is Things”: Camp and Consumer Capitalism in James Tiptree, Jr.’s Warm Worlds and Otherwise.

Teaching

• ENG 125: Literatures of Identity, Gender and Madness
• WGS 200: Introduction to Women’s and Gender Studies
• LAS 101: Confronting the Other: Aliens, Witches, and Robots
• LAS 102: Envisioning Peace
• ENG 101: First-Year Composition

Scholarship

• “Contract Grading as a Pedagogical Tool to Minimize Racist Language Ideologies,” American Association for Applied Linguistics Graduate Student Newsletter, Featured Article, Fall 2020 issue.
• “‘The Ball Breaking Bitch, the Fanged Killer Lady’: Women's Rage as a Site of Epistemology.” Roundtable on Theorizing Madness, Northeast Modern Language Association, Baltimore Marriott Waterfront, March 2022.
• “‘Sealed in Blood and in Milk?’: Reimagining Motherhood through Feminist Utopias,” Pacific and Ancient Modern Language Association, Wyndham San Diego Bayside, Nov. 2019.

Awards

• Innovative Teaching Grant, Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CTEL), Bradley University, Fall 2022
• Contemplative Studies and Social Transformation Award, Center for Compassion Studies, University of Arizona, Fall 2020.
• One-Month Research Fellowship, Huntington Library, Short-term residence at to conduct archival research, Octavia E. Butler Collection, San Marino, CA, June 2021.
• Russel S. and Dorothy J. Bilinski Dissertation Fellowship, Bilinski Foundation and the University of Arizona Graduate College, 2020-2021.

Service

• “Fostering LGBTQ+ Inclusiveness on Bradley’s Campus,” co-presented with Valerie San Juan, Cara Wood, and Liz Ward, CTEL Spring Forum, Bradley University, January 2023.
• Discussant, CTEL Book Group, Bradley University, focus on equity in higher education, Bradley University, Fall 2021-Fall 2022.
• Committee Member, Women’s and Gender Studies, Bradley University, Fall 2022.
• “Women at Work: The Past, Present, and Future of Feminist Labor Activism,” invited presentation for Women in Business Student Organization, Bradley University, March 2022.
• “Channeling Eco-Anxiety into Climate Activism,” invited presentation for Worldwide Teach-In for Climate Justice, Bradley University, March 2022.
• “Strategies for Fostering a More Equity-Focused Campus Culture,” Co-presented with Valerie San Juan, CTEL Spring Forum, Bradley University, January 2022.