Sarah grew up in Northern California.

During her undergraduate studies in Maine, she focused on friendships between women, masculinity in academia and rebellion in the writing of Albert Camus.

She then moved to New York to focus on writing and acting. As a performer, producer and in writing her own work she returns to ethnographic research and to the questions of personal intimacy and political rebellion that she first sunk her teeth into in college.

At NYU she will examine performance and intimacy leading to knowledge production in contemporary media and digital life. She is particularly interested the diffusion and performance of feminist and queer concepts from academia to activism via social media.

Areas of concentration/study:

Queer Theory; Psychoanalytic Theory; Absurdity; Media Studies; Intimacy

Capstone/Thesis/Dissertation Title:

BA Capstone: Absurd Rebellion: The Positive Project of Albert Camus