Sarah Mann-O'Donnell hails from Philadelphia, where she taught theory in various modalities at Rosemont College for several years. She holds a BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and an MA in Gender, Culture and Modernity from Goldsmiths College, University of London. Her MA thesis, titled Becoming Alan Turing: Toward a Lived Theory of Difference, was published by Goldsmiths in 2006. A revised version of the dissertation is available online, at http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/sociology/papers.

In her first year at Northwestern, Sarah's preliminary interests are poststructuralism and its roots, the relationship between philosophy and a loosely defined "literature," and the poetics of experimental sound. She authors a blog that chronicles spontaneous poetic compositions written while listening to live sound events, which you can visit here: http://sarahssoundscripts.blogspot.com.

Sarah has written about topics as diverse as performance in Benjamin's Arcades Project, epistemological desire and suffering in Turing, Deleuze and Foucault, the Platonic and Kristevan chora in Nancy Drew, and Foucauldian technologies of the self in Vito Acconci. She is thrilled to be a student again, and created a guide for application to doctoral programs based on her own harrowing yet rewarding process of application. For anyone needing guidance, the blog is available here: http://humanitiesphd.blogspot.com/