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Sean F Ward serves as Assistant Professor of English at St. Olaf College, specializing in twentieth-century American, British, and Global Anglophone literature, postcolonial theory, and Black Atlantic studies. His academic work examines literary representations of collective life during political catastrophes, with a focus on marginalized communities across imperial and postcolonial contexts.
Ward's research centers on his book project A Feeling of Functional Anarchy: Total War, the Small Group, and Literary Form, which analyzes how writers depicted small communities of outcasts—colonized subjects, incarcerated pacifists, queer soldiers, and spiritualist mediums—to reimagine alternatives to empire and nation. His scholarly publications in Modernism/modernity and Contemporary Literature explore intersections of literature, war, and anti-colonial resistance, emphasizing how literary forms challenge dominant political structures.
As an educator, Ward implements collaborative pedagogy that connects close reading and critical writing to contemporary community engagement. He founded the Workshop in Literature and Theater at the Montana Women’s Prison, an academic initiative applying literary study to carceral settings through critical reading, writing, and performance. This program exemplifies his commitment to extending scholarly work into community contexts while amplifying silenced historical and present-day voices.
