SARA MARCUS

I am an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame, where I'm also affiliated with the Gender Studies program and the Initiative on Race and Resilience. 

My most recent book is Political Disappointment: A Cultural History from Reconstruction to the AIDS Crisis, published by Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. The book is a finalist for the Susanne M. Glasscock Book Prize for interdisciplinary humanities scholarship and is shortlisted for the Phi Beta Kappa's Christian Gauss Award in literary criticism.

My previous book, Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution (Harper Perennial, 2010), was a finalist for the National Award for Arts Writing and has been published in Spanish, Polish, and Portuguese.

My essays and criticism on literature, music, sound, and art have appeared in publications including Artforum, Bookforum, the Chronicle of Higher Education, Dissent, the LA Review of Books, the Los Angeles Times, the New Republic, Public Books, and Texte zur Kunst.

I hold a Ph.D. in English and Interdisciplinary Humanities from Princeton and an MFA in Creative Writing (Nonfiction) from Columbia.