Office: Phelps Hall 6323

Email: saraweld@ucsb.edu

Website:  https://saraweld.com/

Teaching and Academic Specialization

I research childhood across national and interdisciplinary boundaries, particularly in Slavic, Scandinavian, and North American contexts and in literature, art, film, and theory. My work, which is moving in increasingly global and comparative directions, seeks to challenge discriminatory attitudes toward children in scholarship, society, and culture. She also increasingly advocates for children and the humanities and foreign languages. My comparative and interdisciplinary interests are wide-ranging, but oftentimes childhood, infancy, and the infantile figure centrally within her research, whether this interest takes her scholarship into literature, culture, history, art, film, or theory; transnational literature of the 18th-21st century, modernism, and the avant-garde; or children's literature and picturebooks.

My teaching encompasses Russian/Slavic and East European literature, culture and theory; comparative literature; and children's literature. She lives in Santa Barbara with her family, including her three children. In her free time she enjoys traveling, the outdoors, and the Channel Islands.

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