#  Sarah Hopkinson 

Lecturer on English 

 

 

 



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 location\_on Barker 069 

 email <shopkinson@fas.harvard.edu> 

Office Hours: by appointment

 

 



 

Education: B.A., Harvard University (2013), M.F.A., University of East Anglia (2018), M.A., Boston University (2020), Ph.D., Boston University (2025)

Interests: twentieth-century American literature; anglophone Caribbean literature; environmental humanities; climate change; modernism; hemispheric studies.

Selected works:

“Modernity’s Suffocations: Plantation Assemblages in Faulkner’s Miasmic South,” *Modernism/modernity*, vol 32, no. 2, April 2025.

“Talking Trash: Jesmyn Ward’s *Salvage the Bones* and the Timescape of Disaster,” *ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment*, vol. 31, issue 1, spring 2024.



 

 

 





 

 

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