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Sarah Brouillette

Professor

Degrees:B.A. (Simon Fraser University), M.A., Ph.D. (University of Toronto)
Phone:613-520-2600 x 8036
Email:sarah_brouillette@carleton.ca
Office:1904 Dunton Tower

Research Interests

  • contemporary literature and culture, cultural and social theory, sociology of culture, creative industries and cultural policy, publishing studies, Marxism and communism
  • my current SSHRC-funded project, “The Future Literary,” studies informal and contingent labour and joblessness as conditions for the emergence of new reading/writing cultures

Recent Honours and Awards

  • SSHRC Insight Grant, 2019-2024
  • Marston LaFrance Research Fellowship, 2017-2018
  • SSHRC Insight Grant, 2013-2017
  • SSHRC Standard Research Grant, 2010-2013

Selected Recent Articles and Book Chapters

From Scratch: A Morbid Symptomology of the Tradwife.” With Astrid Lorange. Verso blog (22 April 2024).

Wattpad’s Fictions of Care.Post45 (July 2022).

“The rise and fall of the English-language literary novel since WWII.” In After Marx: Literary, Theory, and Value in the Twenty-First Century. Eds. Colleen Lye and Chris Nealon. Cambridge UP, 2022. 116-130.

The Consolations of Heterosexual Monogamy in Sally Rooney’s Beautiful World, Where Are You.Blind Field (30 September 2021).

The Talented Ms. Calloway.Los Angeles Review of Books (December 2020).

• “Aspirational Literary Labour in I May Destroy You.Blind Field (November 2020).

• “Romance Work.” Theory and Event2 (April 2019): 451-464.