Sara Marcus

Sep 26, 2024 | pbk.org | Nicholas Dames |Mark Edmundson |Gregg Hecimovich |Sara Marcus

The ΦΒΚ Book Awards are administered in the following three, non-fiction categories: The Christian Gauss Award: Celebrates outstanding books in the field of literary scholarship or criticism. The Phi Beta Kappa Award for Science: Recognizes superior books by scientists written to illuminate aspects of science for a broad readership. The Ralph Waldo Emerson Award: Honors scholarly studies that contribute significantly to interpretations of the intellectual and cultural condition of humanity.

Sep 18, 2024 | chronicle.com | Sara Marcus

In 2007, Jennifer Doyle broke an appointment with a performance artist named Adrian Howells. Howells’s artworks often consisted of intense one-on-one interactions, which he called “accelerated intimacy.” Doyle had booked a time slot for his artwork Held, in which individual audience members took turns drinking tea with the artist, then holding hands with him, and finally spooning with him in a bedroom for twenty minutes. But Doyle had inadvertently double-booked her day.

Jul 25, 2024 | newswise.com | Sara Marcus

In the past three days, people on social media have embraced British pop star Charli XCX’s online pronouncement that “Kamala IS brat.” According to to Sara Marcus, an assistant professor of English at the University of Notre Dame and author of “Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution,” that translates to a declaration that Kamala Harris, the Democratic Party’s presumptive new nominee for president, embodies the sort of messy, complicated, casual womanhood that the...

May 29, 2023 | powells.com | Sara Marcus

Apr 11, 2023 | barnafotopress.com | Sara Marcus