
Dr Sarah Abrahams
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I am currently researching the connection between digital media and print literature in America from the 1990s to present day.
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Research interests
I am currently researching the connection between digital media and formally digressive American print literature. I work primarily with texts by David Foster Wallace, Jennifer Egan, Carmen Maria Machado, Bret Easton Ellis and Mark Z. Danielewski - but this list continues to grow. Looking to a period of media transition between 1999-2020, I am interrogating how the parameters of what we understand a text to be are moving, analysing the intersection of technological and literary innovation across textual forms.
Previous research projects have included a history of literary responses to non-normative sexualities, work on the impact of pornography censorship online and research into the binaries prevalant within digital discourse.
I teach across Liberal Arts and English units, including 'Arts in the Age of Data', 'Critical Issues' and 'Global Histories: Possible Pasts, Alternative Futures'.
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Thesis
Phenomimes, Skeuomorphs and Remediation
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Award date
20/01/2026