Sarah MacDonald

Sarah MacDonald is a Lecturer in the Department of English and World Languages at Purdue University Northwest. Her research focuses on Life Writing with a specific emphasis on the life writing of working-class women to examine subjectivity through social and historical contexts of composition. She holds a Ph.D. in English Literature from Kent State University, an M.A. from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, and a B.A. from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.

Her research interests include examining how working-class women express subjectivity through autobiographical writing within socio-historical frameworks. This work contributes to understanding narrative identity formation and social representation in literature.