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Sara Jamieson is an Associate Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Carleton University, part of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. She holds a B.A. and M.A. from the University of Toronto and a Ph.D. from Queen’s University. Her research focuses on age studies, examining intersections of aging with class, race, gender, and sexuality in Canadian literature. She critiques societal stigmatization of aging through literary analysis, emphasizing transformative potential in midlife narratives.
Key areas of research include representations of middle age in Canadian texts, particularly addressing midlife crises as cultural critiques of capitalism and nuclear family expectations. Her work challenges normative aging frameworks, advocating for 'age-just futures.' Recent scholarship analyzes works by Margaret Laurence, Richard B. Wright, Alice Munro, Carol Shields, Joe Ollmann, and Ann-Marie MacDonald.
Publications appear in journals like British Journal of Canadian Studies, Studies in Canadian Literature, and University of Toronto Quarterly, with a focus on queer aging, graphic novels, and speculative fiction. She has presented at international conferences including the European Network of Aging Studies and the Association for Canadian and Quebec Literatures.
Her teaching and research bridge literary analysis with social critique, emphasizing care ethics and cultural narratives of aging. Office: 1819 Dunton Tower, Carleton University.
