Kareem, Sarah T.
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Education
B.A. Honors, English, 1996 Girton College, University of Cambridge
Ph.D., English, 2003 Harvard University
Interests
The history and theory of the novel; fictionality; Enlightenment philosophy; literature and science; realism and the marvelous; affect theory.
Selected Publications
Eighteenth-Century Fiction and the Reinvention of Wonder. Oxford University Press, 2014. Paperback edition 2019.
“Theory Attachment.” Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture. Volume 49, 2020.
“On Being Difficult: The Pursuit of Wonder.” Lumen Volume 39, 2020.
“Flimsy Materials, Or, What the Eighteenth Century Can Teach Us about Twenty-First Century Worlding.” Critical Inquiry. (Winter 2016).
“Enlightenment Bubbles, Romantic Worlds.” The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation. 56.1 (Spring 2015).
“Rethinking the Real with Robinson Crusoe and David Hume.” NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction. 47.3 (2014).
“Fictions, Lies, and Baron Munchausen’s Narrative.” Modern Philology 109.4 (May 2012).
“Lost in the Castle of Scepticism: Sceptical Philosophy as Gothic Romance.” Fictions of Knowledge: Fact, Evidence, Doubt. Eds. Yota Batsaki, Subha Mukherji, and Jan-Melissa Schramm. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
“Forging Figures of Invention in Eighteenth-Century Britain.” The Age of Projects. Ed. Maximillian E. Novak. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008.
Current Research
I am currently writing my second book, which explores the troubled attachments that works of literature both represent and elicit. I am also editing a new Oxford World’s Classics edition of Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones. With Crystal B. Lake, I am co-founder and co-editor of The Rambling.
Personal website:
http://www.sarahkareem.humspace.ucla.edu
Other writing
In The Rambling: Terpsichorean Powers, An Annotated Playlist for David Hume
In Avidly, To All the Romantic Comedies I’ve Loved Before
For American Book Review: Reading is Seeing
For Arcade, On Not (Yet) Getting It
For the OUP Blog: Heart-Stopped: Fiction and the Rewards of Discomfort
Blog: Notes from the Duck-Rabbit Hole
Interest Areas
• Eighteenth-C. British Literature
• Critical Theory
