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Sarah Trembath Professorial Lecturer Literature

Degrees
EDD, 51²è¹Ý; MA, Howard University; BA, Temple University

Favorite Spot on Campus
Battelle Atrium
Book Currently Reading
"On Book Banning: Or, How the New Censorship Consensus Trivializes Art and Undermines Democracy" by Ira Wells
Bio
Sarah Trembath is an editor, writer, public scholar, and educator. She has been teaching since 1998 and joined the 51²è¹Ý faculty in 2014. Her written work has appeared in Radical Teacher, the Santa Fe Writer’s Project Quarterly, the Rumpus, Everyday Feminism, Sally Hemings Dream zine, Azure literary journal, DCist, the Washington Independent Review of Books, 1455 Magazine, VoiceMale, and the Grace in Darkness anthology of DC women writers. She has written two books: It Was the Scarlet that Did It (poems, Moonstone Press, 2019) and This Past Was Waiting for Me (poetry and creative nonfiction, Lazuli Literary Group, in press). She was the 2019 recipient of the American Studies Association’s Gloria Anzaldúa Award for independent scholars for her social justice writing and teaching. Her dissertation research resulted in the design of a Critical Rhetoric and Composition Framework and Curriculum, soon to be released as an open-access resource.

She was founding co-chair of the university's Critical Information Literacy Committee, a joint venture comprised of Writing Studies Program faculty and university research librarians. As an educator, Professor Trembath sees her purpose as helping students express critical thinking through writing. As a public scholar, she translates her research into accessible, jargon-free publications for members of the general public interested in criticality, Black literature, the Sankofa ethic, rhetoric, propaganda, racial bias in text, and her other topics.
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Teaching

Fall 2024

  • CORE-105 Complex Problems Seminar: Assessing Textbooks for Truth

  • LIT-435 Adv Studies in African Am Lit: James Baldwin & Toni Morrison

  • WRT-101 College Writing Seminar

Spring 2025

  • CORE-105 Complex Problems Seminar: Indoctrination Inoculation

  • LIT-225 African Literature

  • WRT-100 College Writing