{"id":219,"date":"2009-06-29T10:01:31","date_gmt":"2009-06-29T14:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/?page_id=219"},"modified":"2025-10-22T10:02:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T14:02:15","slug":"casteel-sarah","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/people\/casteel-sarah\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Phillips Casteel"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n                    \n             \n                \n            <\/h1>\n\n    \n    <\/header>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Research Interests<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Black and Jewish diaspora literature and culture<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>global Holocaust studies<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>memory studies<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Caribbean and hemispheric American studies<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Current Research<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"125\" height=\"189\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/147\/2025\/09\/Black-Lives-Under-Nazism-Casteel.jpg\" alt=\"Black Lives Under Nazism: Making History Visible in Literature and Art\" class=\"wp-image-27045\" style=\"width:173px;height:auto\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>My research is situated at the intersection of Black studies and Jewish studies. My most recent book, <a href=\"https:\/\/cup.columbia.edu\/book\/black-lives-under-nazism\/9780231211970\"><em>Black Lives Under Nazism: Making History Visible in Literature and Art<\/em><\/a> (Columbia UP, 2024), draws attention to a largely unrecognized body of artworks that challenges the erasure of Black wartime history. Like my previous monograph, <a href=\"https:\/\/cup.columbia.edu\/book\/calypso-jews\/9780231174404\"><em>Calypso Jews: Jewishness in the Caribbean Literary Imagination<\/em><\/a> (Columbia UP, 2016), it probes the boundaries of Holocaust memory and representation while expanding the discussion of Black-Jewish literary and aesthetic relations beyond the U.S. national frame. To further advance the emerging conversation between postcolonial and Jewish studies, I have co-edited with Heidi Kaufman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upress.virginia.edu\/title\/5260\/#:~:text=Caribbean%20Jewish%20Crossings%20is%20the,in%20studies%20of%20Caribbean%20literature.\"><em>Caribbean Jewish Crossings: Literary History and Creative Practice<\/em><\/a> (U of Virginia P, 2019) and, with Roni Mikel-Arieli, a special issue of the journal <em>Patterns of Prejudice <\/em>on Holocaust refugees and the colonial world (2024).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My earlier publications contributed to the fields of diaspora studies and hemispheric American studies. They include <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upress.virginia.edu\/title\/3580\/\"><em>Second Arrivals: Landscape and Belonging in Contemporary Writing of the Americas<\/em><\/a> (U of Virginia P, 2007) and the co-edited volume <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mqup.ca\/canada-and-its-americas-products-9780773536579.php\"><em>Canada and its Americas: Transnational Navigations<\/em><\/a> (McGill-Queen\u2019s UP, 2010).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At Carleton, I am a founding member of the Centre for Transnational Cultural Analysis and MDS: Migration and Diaspora Studies. I am cross-appointed to the Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Culture and the Institute of African Studies. Beyond Carleton, I serve on the Academic Council of the Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern University, the advisory board of Bloombury Academic&#8217;s Comparative Jewish Literatures series, and the editorial boards of <em>Jewish Historical Studies: A Journal of English-Speaking Jewry <\/em>and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.AmericanJewishStudies.org\">www.AmericanJewishStudies.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Selected Professional Honours and Awards<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Norman Raab Foundation Fellow, Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington DC, 2022<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Marston LaFrance Fellowship, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Carleton University, 2021-22<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Potsdam Postcolonial Chair in Global Modernities, University of Potsdam, Germany, 2021<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Research Achievement Award, Carleton University, 2019-20<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Visiting Fellow, Zentrum J\u00fcdische Studien Berlin-Brandenburg, Berlin, 2019<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Canadian Jewish Literary Award, 2016<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>John Charles Polanyi Prize for Literature, Government of Ontario, 2007<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Horst Frenz Prize, American Comparative Literature Association, 2004<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Grants<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>SSHRC Insight Grant, 2021-26<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>SSHRC Insight Development Grant, 2017-19<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>SSHRC Standard Research Grant, 2008-12<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Books<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/cup.columbia.edu\/book\/black-lives-under-nazism\/9780231211970\"><em>Black Lives Under Nazism: Making History Visible in Literature and Art<\/em><\/a>. Black Lives in the Diaspora series. Columbia University Press, 2024.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.upress.virginia.edu\/title\/5260\/\"><em>Caribbean Jewish Crossings: Literary History and Creative Practice<\/em><\/a>. Essay collection co-edited with Heidi Kaufman. University of Virginia Press, 2019.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/cup.columbia.edu\/book\/calypso-jews\/9780231174404\"><em>Calypso Jews: Jewishness in the Caribbean Literary Imagination<\/em><\/a>. Literature Now series. Columbia University Press, 2016.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mqup.ca\/canada-and-its-americas-products-9780773536579.php?page_id=46\"><em>Canada and Its Americas: Transnational Navigations<\/em><\/a>. Essay collection co-edited with Winfried Siemerling. McGill-Queen\u2019s University Press, 2010.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.upress.virginia.edu\/title\/3580\/\"><em>Second Arrivals: Landscape and Belonging in Contemporary Writing of the Americas<\/em><\/a>. New World Studies series. University of Virginia Press, 2007.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Selected Recent Articles and Book Chapters <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/jj.2036768\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Blyden and Pissarro on St. Thomas: Pan-Africanism, Zionism, and the Sephardic Caribbean.<\/a>&#8221; <em>Unacknowledged Kinships: Postcolonial Studies and the Historiography of Zionism<\/em>. Ed. Derek Penslar, Stefan Vogt, and Arieh Saposnik. Brandeis University Press. 95-118.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/pub\/3\/article\/847091\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Outside the Frame: The Josef Nassy Collection and the Boundaries of Holocaust Art.<\/a>&#8221; <em>Jewish Social Studies <\/em>1 (Winter 2022): 43-82.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/Survey-Practices-and-Landscape-Photography-Across-the-Globe\/Junge-HydeNolan\/p\/book\/9780367672119\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&#8216;Close Your Eyes and Imagine a German&#8217;: The Alps as a Postmemorial Landscape of Black Europe in Maud Sulter&#8217;s Photomontages.<\/a>&#8221; <em>Survey Practices and Landscape Photography Across the Globe<\/em>. Ed. Sophie Junge and Erin Hyde Nolan. Routledge, 2022. 231-250.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/associationforjewishstudies.org\/scholars-insights-on-art-josef-nassy-s-tittmoning-(1944)-blackness-jewishness-and-holocaust-art\">&#8220;Josef Nassy&#8217;s <em>Tittmoning<\/em> (1944): Blackness, Jewishness, and Holocaust Art.&#8221;<\/a> <em>AJS Perspectives: The Art Issue<\/em> (Fall 2021): 66-67.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/alh\/issue\/33\/4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Telling the Untold Story: Jewish Wartime Refuge in Haiti in Louis-Philippe Dalembert&#8217;s <em>Avant que les ombres s&#8217;effacent<\/em>.<\/a>&#8221; <em>American Literary History<\/em> 4 (2021): 756-776.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/read.dukeupress.edu\/small-axe\/article\/25\/1%20(64)\/28\/173478\/Making-History-VisibleCaribbean-Artist-Josef-Nassy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Making History Visible: Dutch Caribbean Artist Josef Nassy&#8217;s Visual Diary of Nazi Internment.<\/a>&#8221; <em>Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism <\/em>64 (March 2021): 28-46.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/hgs\/issue\/34\/2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Jazz Fiction and the Holocaust: Reading History for Clues in the Novels of John A. Williams and Esi Edugyan.<\/a>&#8220;<em> Holocaust and Genocide Studies<\/em> 2 (Fall 2020): 206-224.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.degruyterbrill.com\/document\/doi\/10.1515\/9783110583182\/html?lang=en&amp;srsltid=AfmBOorytx3uv8EGjTTgt2NJdszGZYZMPh321zeiJvdk-ej3Kn-UTL59#contents\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Caribbean.<\/a>&#8221; <em>Handbook of Anglophone World Literatures<\/em>. E Stefan Helgesson, Gabriele Rippl, and Birgit Neumann. De Gruyter Press, 2020. 395-414.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;Teaching Blacks and Jews in Transnational Perspective.&#8221; <em>MLA Options for Teaching Jewish American Literature<\/em>. Ed. Rachel Rubinstein and Roberta Rosenberg. Modern Languages Association, 2020. 90-98.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Selected Blogs<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/cupblog.org\/2024\/02\/07\/black-life-in-a-nazi-internment-camp-the-art-of-josef-nassy-sarah-phillips-casteel\/\">\u201cBlack Life in a Nazi Internment Camp: The Art of Josef Nassy.\u201d<\/a> Author blog for Columbia University Press. February 2024.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/americanjewishexperience.org\/new-directions-in-caribbean-jewish-studies\/#more-470\">&#8220;Field Update: New Developments in Caribbean Jewish Studies.&#8221;<\/a>org. July 9, 2021.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/hasepharadi.com\/2020\/03\/29\/sephardism-in-caribbean-literature\/\">&#8220;Sephardism in Caribbean Literature.&#8221;<\/a>com. March 29, 2020.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aaihs.org\/caribbean-literature-jewishness-and-global-holocaust-memory\/\">&#8220;Caribbean Literature, Jewishness, and Global Holocaust Memory.&#8221;<\/a> African American Intellectual History Society. November 18, 2016. Peer-reviewed blog.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Selected Recent Invited Talks <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u201cBlack and Jewish Lives in a Nazi Internment Camp: The Art of Josef Nassy and Max Brandel.\u201d Sir Martin Gilbert Learning Centre. University College London. London, UK, June 19, 2024.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cPreserving Shared History: Art in Internment during the Holocaust.\u201d Josef and Rebecca Meyerhoff Annual Lecture. Jointly organized by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the University of Nebraska-Omaha. Omaha, Nebraska, May 1, 2024.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cBlack Life in a Nazi Internment Camp: The Art of Josef Nassy.\u201d Middlebury College. Middlebury, Vermont, April 17, 2024.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cBlack Lives Under Nazism: Making History Visible in Literature and Art.\u201d University of Cincinnati. Cincinnati, Ohio, March 28, 2024.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WG80sXQWnVE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Interview with Tema Smith about <em>Black Lives Under Nazism<\/em>.<\/a> Montreal Holocaust Museum and Jewish Public Library, February 28, 2024. Virtual. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cMaking History Visible: Black Lives Under Nazism in Literature and Art.\u201d University of Amsterdam. Decolonial Dialogues series. Amsterdam, Netherlands, May 26, 2023.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cMaking History Visible: Black Lives Under Nazism in Literature and Art.\u201d Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies, University of Toronto. February 2023.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cArt, Memory and Resistance.\u201d Keynote talk at the graduate student conference \u201cGlobal and Migrant Memories.\u201d University of Potsdam, Germany. June 2022.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;Creolizing Holocaust Memory: The Jewish Caribbean and Nazi Persecution in Literature and Art.&#8221; Parkes Institute and Center for Imperial and Postcolonial Studies, University of Southampton, UK. October 2021.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cBringing Together Postcolonial and Holocaust Studies in the Classroom.\u201d Transatlantic World History Project. Columbia University, New York. July 2021. (virtual)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;Outside the Frame: The Josef Nassy Collection, the Sephardic Caribbean, and the Boundaries of Holocaust Art.&#8221; Greenfield\/Lynch Lecture. Department of English and Program in Jewish Culture and Society. University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. April (virtual)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Recent Conference Presentations<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>(with Christine Duff) \u201cArchitecture as a Connective Figure of Colonial and Wartime Memory in Boum and Berber\u2019s <em>Undesirables<\/em>.\u201d British Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies Conference. Savannah, Georgia, February 12, 2024.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cFrom Image to Text: Translating the Photographic Archive of Black Experience Under Nazism.\u201d Symposium on \u201cTranslation and the Archive.\u201d Centre for Translation Studies, University of Dusseldorf. Dusseldorf, Germany, June 2, 2023. Invited presentation.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cDiaspora and Return: Sephardic Caribbean Critical and Artistic Perspectives.\u201d Association for Jewish Studies. San Francisco, December 19, 2023.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cLiterary Narratives of Jewish Wartime Refuge in the Caribbean: Felicia Rosshandler\u2019s <em>Passing Through Havana<\/em>.\u201d Association for Jewish Studies, Boston. December 19, 2022.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cEntangled Histories: Surinamese Artist Josef Nassy\u2019s Visual Diary of Nazi Internment.\u201d Lessons &amp; Legacies, Ottawa. November 14, 2022.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;Creolizing Holocaust Art: The Josef Nassy Collection.&#8221; Consent not to be a single being: Worlding the Caribbean.&#8221; Tate Museum, London UK. Dec. 1-3, 2021. (virtual)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Recent Workshops<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Co-organizer (with Jacqueline Nassy Brown), &#8220;Black Lives under Nazism.\u201d Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C. June 7-16, 2023.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Co-organizer (with Nicole Waller), &#8220;Globalizing Holocaust Studies: Pedagogical Approaches.&#8221; University of Potsdam, Germany. July 21, 2021.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Co-organizer (with Sina Rauschenbach), &#8220;Jewish Studies and Postcolonial Studies: Do We Need to Talk?&#8221; Zentrum J\u00fcdische Studien Berlin-Brandenburg, Berlin. June 12, 2019.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Completed Doctoral Supervisions<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Sarah Waisvisz (English), \u201cDissident Diaspora: Genres of Maroon Witness from the Anglophone and Francophone Caribbean\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Gabrielle Etcheverry (Canadian Studies), \u201cCultures of Coloniality: Latina\/o Writing in Canada\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Aliesha Hosein (English), \u201cFrom Slaveships to Cruiseships: Ships, Boats and Sailing Vessels in Caribbean Literature\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lale Eskicioglu (Cultural Mediations), &#8220;Beyond Postcolonialism: The Urban and Social Realist Turn in Indian and Nigerian Literatures&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Victoria Nolte (Cultural Mediations), &#8220;One Place and Another: Worldmaking in Asian Canadian Contemporary Art&#8221; (co-supervisor)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Marie-Catherine Allard (Cultural Mediations), \u201cReshaping Memory: Counternarratives in Kindertransport Literature&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Jessica Marino (Cultural Mediations), &#8220;Holocaust Memory, Aesthetics and the Dictatorships of the Southern Cone of Latin America: Interconnecting Memories and Traumas&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Kevin Pat Fong (Cultural Mediations), &#8220;Reframing Racial Passing in Asian Diaspora Comics\u201d (co-supervisor)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26137,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Sarah Phillips","cu_people_last_name":"Casteel","cu_people_initials":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[22],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-219","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-professors"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"Professor","cu_people_degree":"B.A. (University of Toronto), M.A., M.Phil. 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