Sarah Trembath Professorial Lecturer Literature
- Degrees
- EDD, Â鶹´«Ã½; MA, Howard University; BA, Temple University
- Favorite Spot on Campus
- Battelle Atrium
- Book Currently Reading
- "Toward a New Neurobiology of Writing" by Edward Comstock; "Teach the Body in Front of You," by Daisy Levy; After the End, by David Pike
- Bio
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Sarah Trembath is an editor, writer, and educator. She has been teaching since 1998 and joined the AU faculty in 2014. Her written work has appeared in Radical Teacher, the Santa Fe Writer’s Project Quarterly, the Rumpus, Everyday Feminism, Sally Hemings Dream zine, Azure literary journal, DCist, the Washington Independent Review of Books, 1455 Magazine, VoiceMale, and the Grace in Darkness anthology of DC women writers. She has written two books: It Was the Scarlet that Did It (poems, Moonstone Press, 2019) and This Past Was Waiting for Me (poetry and creative nonfiction, Lazuli Literary Group, in press). She was the 2019 recipient of the Â鶹´«Ã½ Studies Association’s Gloria Anzaldúa Award for independent scholars for her social justice writing and teaching. Her dissertation research resulted in the design of a Critical Rhetoric and Composition Framework and Curriculum, soon to be released as an open-access resource.
She is currently founding co-chair of the university's Critical Information Literacy Committee, a joint venture comprised of Writing Studies Program faculty and university research librarians. As an educator, Professor Trembath sees her purpose as helping students express critical thinking through writing.
- For the Media
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Teaching
Fall 2024
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CORE-105 Complex Problems Seminar: Assessing Textbooks for Truth
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LIT-435 Adv Studies in African Am Lit: James Baldwin & Toni Morrison
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WRT-101 College Writing Seminar
Spring 2025
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CORE-105 Complex Problems Seminar: Indoctrination Inoculation
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LIT-225 African Literature
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WRT-106 College Writing, Intensive