Education

Ph.D., University of California at Davis, English, Designated Emphasis Critical Theory, June 2011

Dissertation: “The Modern Zombie: Living Death in the Technological Age.” Committee:

Marc E. Blanchard (co-chair), Colin Milburn (co-chair), Timothy Morton, Scott Simmon, Claire Waters (exam committee), Michael Ziser (exam committee)

Certificate, School of Criticism and Theory, Cornell University, Summer 2009

M.A, University of California at Davis, English, Spring 2006. Thesis: "Into the White: A Study of Enjambment and Caesura in a Disabled Poetics." Committee: Scott Simmon (chair), Joshua Clover, Sandra McPherson

M.A., New York University, Humanities and Social Thought, June 2004, Thesis: "The Fruits of their Labors: Childbirth Poetry and the American Womb in the Age of Assisted Reproductive Technology," conducted under the direction of Shireen Patell.

B.A., University of California at Berkeley, with High Honors in English and distinction in general scholarship, May, 2000.

Select Publications

Books:

Christie, Deborah and Sarah J. Lauro, eds, Better Off Dead: The Evolution of the Zombie as Post-Human, Forthcoming from Fordham University Press, September, 2011.

Book chapters:

Lauro, Sarah and Deborah Christie, “Introduction,” Better Off Dead: The Evolution of the Zombie as Post Human Deborah Christie & Sarah Juliet Lauro, eds, forthcoming from Fordham University Press, Spring, 2011.

Lauro, Sarah, "Playing Dead: Zombies invade Performance Art...and your neighborhood" in Better Off Dead: The Evolution of the Zombie as Post-Human Deborah Christie & Sarah Juliet Lauro, eds, forthcoming from Fordham University Press, Spring, 2011.

Lauro, Sarah. "Afterward: What is Zombie (R)evolution?" in Better Off Dead: The Evolution of the Zombie to Post-Human Deborah Christie & Sarah Juliet Lauro, eds, forthcoming from Fordham University Press, Spring, 2011.

Lauro, Sarah "The Eco-Zombie: Environmental Critique in Zombie Narratives" edited by Wiley Lenz and Stephanie Boluk, eds. The Zombie as Metaphor, forthcoming McFarland, 2011. 

Journal Articles:

Lauro, Sarah J., and Karen Embry, “A Zombie Manifesto: the non-human condition in the era of advanced capitalism,” boundary 2, (Duke University Press) Spring 2008.

Lauro, Sarah J., Tiffany Gilmore, and Jenni Halpin, "Glass Wombs, Cyborg Women, and Kangaroo Mothers: How a Third-World Practice May Resolve the Techno/Feminist Debate"  Text/Technology, 15(1), 2007

Lauro, Sarah J., “The Fruits of their Labors: The Childbirth Poetry of Plath, Sexton, and Loy,” Northwest Review, 44(2), 2006.  

Awards

2010-2011, UC Davis Humanities Institute, Recipient, Dissertation Year Fellowship (a division-wide, faculty nominated competition)

Spring 2010, UC Davis, English Department, awarded Dissertation Quarter Fellowship

Summer 2009, Cornell University School of Criticism and Theory, granted Tuition Fellowship

Spring 2009, UC Davis, Office of Graduate Studies, Research Grant recipient

Spring 2007, UC Davis, English Department, awarded Miller Block Grant for research

Spring 2003, New York University, John W. Draper Program, Recipient, Tuition Remission Scholarship (a faculty-nominated scholarship)

Spring 2000, UC Berkeley, Recipient, Hill Scholarship (a faculty-nominated award)

Presentations

Conference Papers:

"Reimagining the Zombie in Haitian Literature," Haitian Studies Association annual conference, November, 2010, Haiti, History, Healing: Facing the Challenges of Reconstruction.

“Reimagining the Zombie’s Migration,” ACLA conference 2010, Creoles, Diasporas, Cosmopolitanisms.   

“Into the White: Enjambment, Caesura, and Larry Eigner’s Visual Poetics,” with Lindsay Riordan, CUNY Conference on the Poetics of Pain, Feb 2010.                                                                                 

"The Zombie Martyrs: Contagion and Colonization in Early Christian Conversion Narratives" delivered at U.C. Berkeley's Comparative Literature conference, Altered States, Fall 2008.                    

“A Zombie Manifesto: the non-human condition in the era of advanced capitalism” with Karen Embry, 2006 ACLA conference, The Human and its Others.     

“Premature Resurrection: Emily Dickinson’s Zombie Poetics,” 2006 ACLA conference, The Human and its Others.       

“Kangaroo MotherCare: the body as enabled technology,” with Tiffany Gilmore, COCH/COSH, 2005, May 29 - 31, 2005 - University of Western Ontario.                                                                          

“The Fruits of their Labors: The Childbirth Poetry of Plath, Sexton, and Loy,” S.A.M.L.A annual conference, 2003.

 “Mary Shelley’s Mothers and Monsters: the production of demons and the demonization of reproduction in Frankenstein,” McGill University, Blood lust, Blood loss, 2003.

Conference Panels Organized:

“Tracing Caribbean Transmissions.” Proposed, organized, and lead a seminar with Shannon Rose Riley, professor at San Jose State, at the 2010 ACLA Conference, Creoles, Diasporas, Cosmopolitanisms.

Symposia:                                             

“There’s Something in the Blood: Contamination and Contagion in Zombie Films.” UC Davis Graduate Film Symposium, Fall 2005.            

Teaching Experience

University of California at Davis, 2004-2010

ENGLISH Literature                                                                         

Instructor, Introduction to Literature, Six quarters                                                  

Teacher’s Assistant, Three quarters: A Historical Survey of American Literature from 1700-1900 (Spring 2005), lecture delivered, “Figures of the Undead in Emily Dickinson and Edgar Allen Poe;” 20^th Century American Fiction (Winter 2005), lecture delivered, “The Modern Woman in Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises;” Children’s Literature (Fall 2004)

FILM                                                                         

Reader, Three quarters: Film Genres (War Film), Single-Author subject (The Films of Frank Capra); Film History (The Films of 1934).

COMPOSITION                  

Instructor, “The Art of the Essay: Upper-division Composition,” Summer 2009; Instructor, Introduction to College Composition, Six quarters

ENGLISH LANGUAGE                                                                                               

Instructor, English as a Second Language (varying levels intermediate to advanced); Advanced English Composition for Fulbright Scholars, Summers 2008, 2006

Université Michel de Montaigne, Bordeaux 3, France, 2007-2008

ENGLISH LANGUAGE: Lectrice, college English courses of all levels; Instructor, TOEIC preparation course; Instructor, practical English for science majors

Professional Service

2010-2011, UC Davis, English Department, Representative, Faculty Seminars and Special Events Committee

2007-2008, Université Michel de Montaigne, English Club Tutor

2006-2007, UC Davis, English Department, Co-Chair, Scholar's Symposium

2005-2006, UC Davis, English Department, Organizer, Social Committee

Languages

French, German, Ancient Greek

Memberships

Modern Language Association, American Comparative Literature Association, Haitian Studies Association, American Studies Association, Society for Cinema and Media Studies, American Folklore Society