Dr. Sarah Young

Dr. Sarah Young specializes in American Literature, Linguistics, and Grammar. She is the sponsor of the English Club and Benedictine’s Pi Sigma Chapter of Sigma Tau Delta, the International English Honor Society.  She has presented research on Willa Cather for the American Literature Association, Literature into Film Conference, and NEH Seminars focused on the work of Willa Cather. She has published many articles and reviews for arts journals and newspapers and was a contributing writer to The Encyclopedia of Stage Plays on Film. Dr. Young is also a trained opera singer and regularly performs on both the professional and amateur stage.

DEGREES

Ph.D. in English

University of Kansas

M.A. in English

University of Kansas

B.A. in English and German

Baker University

CLASSES

Composition

World War I Literature

American Modernism

Drama

Contemporary Literature

American Literature 

Research interests: 

Music and literature, Literature of World War I, Modernism, 20th-Century Women writers, Women’s travel writing