Sarah E. Cornish, PhD,听颈蝉听Professor of English and Department Chair at the University of Northern 黑料社区, Director of the Feminist inter/Modernist Association, and Co-Editor of听迟丑别听The听Space Between: Literature and Culture, 1914-1945,听an open access, peer-reviewed journal.听Her research is on听the interwar and WWII periods with a specific focus on听women writers, their cultural contributions,听transatlantic entanglements,听and political interventions.听She teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in听early to mid-twentieth century literature and culture.听听听听

PhD听in English Literature (Modernist Studies), Fordham University, 2013.听

MA听in English Literature and Irish Studies, Boston College, 2003.听

BA听in English Literature, University of California – Irvine, 2000.听

English Department Chair, Department. (Spring听2024 – Present).听

Professor, University of Northern 黑料社区. (2024 鈥� Present).听

Associate Professor, University of Northern 黑料社区. (2018听鈥撎�2024).听

Assistant Professor, University of Northern 黑料社区. (2013听鈥撎�2018).听

Select Professional Service听

Vice Program Chair, Modernist Studies Association (MSA). (October 2025 – Present).听

Editor, Journal Editor,听The Space Between: Literature and Culture, 1914-1945. (July 1, 2025 – Present).听

Editorial Review Board Member,听Feminist Modernist Studies. (August 2023 – Present).听

Director, Feminist inter/Modernist Association. (2015 – Present).听

Professional Memberships听

Council of Editors of Learned Journals听(CELJ)听

Feminist听inter/Modernist Association听(FiMA), Co-founder听and Executive Director听

The Space Between Society听

Modernist Studies Association听(MSA)听

Modern Language Association听(MLA)听

British and American (transatlantic) modernism; women writers; 鈥渢he middlebrow鈥�; literary and social culture of the interwar period; urban and space/place theory; architecture and the built environment; feminist theory; phenomenology of the city; women in the city; visual culture and spectacle; film history and theory (in particular French New Wave, British Cinema, and Pre-Code Hollywood); the digital turn (practices in Digital Humanities, multimodality, remediation).

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Cornish, S. & Dinsman, M. (Eds.) (2025). The Space Between: Literature and Culture, 1914-1945 | General Issue: Vol. 21. The Space Between: Literature and Culture, 1914-1945.  

Cornish, S. (2024). “New World Women and the Labour Party Win in Marghanita Laski’s The Village (1952)”. In Melissa Dinsman Megan Faragher & R. Richardson (Eds.), Mid-Centruy Women’s Writing: Disrupting the Public/Private Divide. University of Manchester Press. 

Cornish, S. & Hollis, C., Fox, M., Konchar Farr, C. (Eds.) (2023). Feminist Publishing Against the Pandemic (Special Issue). Feminist Modernist Studies: Vol. 6 (pp. 1–77). Feminist Modernist Studies.  

Cornish, S. (2023). “Notoriously an inarticulate nation”: Feeling World War II through Mollie Panter-Downes’s London Letters. The Space Between: Literature and Culture, 1914-1945, Vol. 18 (2022).  

Cornish, S. (2021). ’Playing Stupid’: Teaching the Self-Taught Woman through Anita Loos, Irmgard Keun, and Stevie Smith. In J. Utell (Ed.), Teaching Modernist Women’s Writing in English (pp. 137–147). Modern Language Association Press. 

Cornish, S. & Pogorelskin, A. (Eds.) (2021). International Cinema in the Space Between: The Long Decade of the 1930s (Special Issue): Vol. 16. The Space Between: Literature and Culture, 1914-1945.  

Cornish, S. (2020). “‘A World of Tomorrow’: Trauma, Urbicide, and Documentation in A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City.” Twentieth Century Literature Vol. 66 (2), pp. 185–206.  

Cornish, S. (2017). “Fashion is Spinach, but Style is Politics: Elizabeth Hawes’s Pioneering Feminism.” Feminist Modernist Studies Vol. 1, pp. 74–95.  

Cornish, S. (2016). ‘Quota Quickies Threaten Audience Intelligence Levels!’: The power of the screen in Betty Miller’s Farewell Leicester Square. In W. Chapman (Ed.), Virginia Woolf and Her Female Contemporaries. Clemson UP. 

Cornish, S. (2015). “Imagined ’ineffable space’: Woolf’s architectural release in America, Which I Have Never Seen.” Virginia Woolf Miscellany, Vol. 87, pp. 26–28. 

Cornish, S., & Evans, E. (Eds.) (2010). Woolf and the City: Selected Papers from the 19th Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf. Clemson UP. 

• 2015, Nominated for Inspiring Woman Award, UNC
• 2014, First Year Scholars Outstanding Faculty and Staff Award, UNC