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Dr. Sarah E. Polo is an Assistant Professor of English at Cottey College in Nevada, Missouri. She coordinates the college's First-Year Writing Seminar program and teaches courses in first-year writing, professional writing, multimodal composition, and writing pedagogy. Her research focuses on the histories of rhetoric and composition, archival research, rhetorical genre studies, and writing program administration. Dr. Polo earned her B.S. from Missouri Western State University, M.A. from the University of Missouri-Kansas City, and Ph.D. from the University of Kansas, joining Cottey College in 2019.
Her work bridges academic writing and caregiving, exemplified by her pandemic-era video logs exploring intersections of professional and parental responsibilities. She serves as a faculty advising editor for Young Scholars in Writing, highlighting her commitment to undergraduate research mentorship. Her scholarship emphasizes historical archival analysis and multimodal pedagogical practices.
Publications include studies on student writing archives (Peitho, 2022), pandemic-era caregiving narratives (Journal of Multimodal Rhetoric, 2022), and multimodal curriculum design (NCTE, 2023). Her contributions reflect a dedication to both scholarly rigor and practical pedagogical innovation in writing education.
