Sarah SalterDirector of the Writing ProgramTeaching Professor

Sarah H. Salter completed her PhD in English at Penn State University in 2014.  Prior to joining the faculty at Emory, Sarah was an Associate Professor of English and serving as Interim Chair of the Dept of Interdisciplinary Studies at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, where she co-founded the campus’s first Black Studies Program.  As a Postdoctoral Fellow at Penn State, Sarah was Coordinator and Full-Time Consultant in the Penn State Graduate Writing Center.

Sarah’s research focuses on histories of editorship, cultural production, and collaboration in multiethnic, multilingual US periodicals. She regularly teaches courses introducing students to histories of mass media, community publication, and multimodal forms of professional writing, often through hands-on work in print culture archives. Her recent articles have been published in journals including American Literature, Criticism, Journal of Feminist Scholarship, and MELUS: Multiethnic Literature of the United States. She serves as the Editor of American Periodicals, the oldest journal of periodical studies scholarship in the US.