Sarah Buckner

Sarah Buckner is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Missouri, part of the College of Arts and Science. Her research focuses on African Diasporic and queer literatures of the 19th and 20th centuries, intersecting with Black Studies, affect theory, and literary studies. She is currently developing a book project titled Exposed Flesh: A Literary History of Black Being, which examines Black affect through the lens of Black women’s literature in the Caribbean and the U.S.

Education:

• PhD, University of California, Riverside (2021)
• MA, University of California, Riverside (2017)
• BA, University of Nevada, Las Vegas (2015)
• AA, College of Southern Nevada (2013)

Awards and Honors:

• UCR Dissertation Year Program Fellowship
• UCHRI Dissertation Grant
• UWP Outstanding Teaching Award
• Eugene Cota Robles Fellowship

Her scholarship explores how Black(female) vulnerability shapes consciousness through intuitive, sensational knowledge beyond conventional frameworks. No grants or lab affiliations are explicitly noted in the provided materials.