Sarah Laiola

Sarah Laiola is an Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Digital Cultural and Design Major at Coastal Carolina University. Previously, she held positions at Georgia Institute of Technology (Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow, 2016–2018) and the University of California, Riverside. Her research focuses on digital culture, new media poetics, and critical race/gender studies, exploring identity construction in digital contexts. She teaches courses in digital humanities, new media, and critical making.

Education includes a Ph.D. (2016), M.A. (2012), and B.A. (2009) in English from UC Riverside, UC Riverside, and the University of Miami, respectively. Her work engages projects like Poem.exe, A Strange Voyage, and The Knotted Line, which critically examine digital art, activism, and identity. She maintains an active online presence via her website sarahwlaiola.com and Twitter @sarathena192.

Her research spans digital poetics, visual culture, and intersections of race/gender with technology. Recent publications analyze anti-racist protests, metadata in literature, and digital storytelling innovations. She emphasizes interdisciplinary approaches, blending literary analysis with digital media studies.