Sarah Cornish

Candidate statement

Professor of English and Department Chair, University of Northern Colorado
Qualifications:
In my capacity as the Director of the Feminist inter/Modernist Association and as a former board member of the Space Between Society, I have had the pleasure of developing conference programs from reviewing proposals for panels, workshops, seminars, and roundtables, soliciting participants for plenary panels, and vetting keynote speakers an visiting artists/authors. When designing conference programs, there are a few things I always keep at the forefront of scheduling decisions. It is important to me that 1) the program committee schedule panels and other activities in such a way that creates a throughline with attendees’ interests in mind, 2) if possible, that the program committee avoids inadvertently disenfranchising graduate students and early-career scholars by scheduling a panel of well-known scholars at the same time as less-well known scholars, and 3) that conference programs show a diverse, interdisciplinary, and inclusive selection of scholarship in modernist studies that highlights the range of field-changing work happening at every level of our profession. I value working collaboratively with the local
organizers to ensure that a conference engages stakeholders across the organizing bodies
as well as with the surrounding community.

Publication Record:
Please see my CV for my publication record, all of which is rooted in the study of culture and politics in the interwar and WWII period, and specifically on women writers and culture makers such as Elizabeth Hawes, Irmgard Keun, Marghanita Laski, and Mollie Panter- Downes.