Sarah Brophy
Professor, English & Cultural Studies

Dr. Sarah Brophy's research interests include auto/biography, contemporary literatures, critical disability studies, health humanities, and visual culture and media studies, with a focus on cultural production by writers and artists working in Turtle Island/North America and in the British Isles.

She welcomes graduate supervisees interested in critical interdisciplinary approaches to disability, embodiment, and health humanities; contemporary literatures, especially life writing (e.g. memoir, graphic narrative); and visual and digital media. She also serves on MA and PhD committees related to cultural studies, Black/diaspora studies; theories of gender and sexuality, postcolonial literatures, and trauma and cultural memory.

Dr. Brophy's recent publications can be found in a/b: Autobiography Studies, ASAP/Journal, Somatechnics: Journal of Bodies—Technologies—Power, Feminist Media Studies, Cultural Critique, Research Methodologies for Auto/biography Studies, and LIT: Literature, Interpretation, Theory. Her distinctions have included the McMaster Students Union Teaching Award, the President's Award for Excellence in Graduate Supervision, and several SSHRC grants. Dr. Brophy's PhD students have gone on to hold academic positions at universities including Seton Hall, University of Waterloo, University of British Columbia, University of Toronto, King's College, London, York University, and Capilano University.