Dr. Sarah Daw

Dr Sarah Daw is a Marie Curie Global Research Fellow in English Literature at the University of Bristol. She has previously held the posts of Lecturer in English Literature and Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow in Environmental Humanities at the University of Bristol, and Postdoctoral Fellow at The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh. She has an MA in English Literature (Critical Theory) and a PhD in English from the University of Exeter. She is the author of Writing Nature in Cold War American Literature and of the forthcoming Poetics of Entanglement: Ecopoetry in the Postwar Avant-Garde.

Selected Publications:

• The Poetics of Entanglement: Ecopoetry in the Postwar Avant-Garde. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2023.
• "'There is no out there': Trans-corporeality and process philosophy in Muriel Rukeyser’s mid-century ecopoetics", Feminist Modernist Studies. Special Issue: Feminist Modernist Ecocriticism 3, no. 2 (2020): 217–233.
• "The Art and Science of Form: Muriel Rukeyser, Charles Olson and F. O. Matthiessen at Mid-century", The Palgrave Handbook of Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century Science and Literature, edited by The Triangle Collective, 525–540. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2020. 525–540.
• ‘“If he chooses to speak from these roots”: Entanglement and Uncertainty in Charles Olson’s “Quantum” Ecopoetics’, Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism 23:4 (2019): 350–366.
• Writing Nature in Cold War American Literature. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2018. Series: ‘Modern American Literature and the New Twentieth Century’, eds. Martin Halliwell and Mark Whalan.
• ‘The ‘dark ecology’ of the Bomb: Writing the Nuclear as a part of Nature in Cold War American Literature’, Dark Nature: Anti-Pastoral Essays in American Literature and Culture, ed. Richard J. Schneider (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016): 119–134.