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Sarah Chinn received her Ph.D in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University in 1996.
Her work primarily explores questions of race, sexuality, and gender in U.S. literature and culture, particularly in the 19th century. She teaches a wide range of courses from Nineteenth Century Women Writers to Early American Drama to Literary Theory to Multicultural American Literature. She is the author of Technology and the Logic of American Racism: A Cultural History of the Body as Evidence (Continuum, 2000) and is currently working on two book-length projects. The first, New Americans, New Identities: Immigration and the Invention of Adolescence in the United States 1880-1930, is an investigation of the creation of the identity of "the adolescent" at the end of the nineteenth century, and its connection to the terms in which new immigrants and their U.S.-born children were described, both by the dominant culture and by themselves. The second, Feeling Our Way: The Ethics of Lesbian Writing, uses current explorations of subjectivity, ethics, sexual and gendered identities, and narrative theory to formulate a a complex but distinctive theory of reading lesbian writing.
Her recent publications include an article on Audre Lorde in GLQ, on lesbian sexuality and exoticism in the collection Palatable Poison: Critical Perspectives on The Well of Loneliness (Columbia University Press, 2002), and on the Hull-House Labor Museum in the collection Our Sisters' Keepers: American Women Writers and Poverty Relief, forthcoming from University of Alabama Press.
Professor Chinn
is currently the Director of CLAGS at the CUNY Graduate Center.
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