Sarah Blackwood

Sarah Blackwood is Associate Professor and Chair of English at Pace and the author of The Portrait’s Subject: Inventing Inner Life in the Nineteenth-Century United States. She is working on a book about mid-twentieth-century children’s book editors and writers. (April 2023)

Letter from an English Department on the Brink

At the English department I chair, our major has grown by more than 40 percent in the last two years. We are being driven to the edge of extinction anyway.

April 2, 2023