Sarah Tindal Kareem

Sarah Tindal Kareem is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles, focusing on literature from the late seventeenth to early nineteenth century. Her work bridges literature and Enlightenment philosophy, emphasizing fictionality, the novel’s history, and affect theory.

• Education: B.A. Honors in English from the University of Cambridge (1996), Ph.D. in English from Harvard University (2003)

Her research explores the role of wonder and skepticism in eighteenth-century fiction, challenging traditional views of realism’s dominance. She argues that the Enlightenment’s skepticism infused realism with the marvelous rather than displacing it. A co-founder of The Rambling, she edits literary works and contributes to blogs like Notes from the Duck-Rabbit Hole. Her current projects include editing Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones for Oxford World’s Classics and writing Vexed: On Resistant Attachment, a monograph on literary attachments.