Draft:Sarah Dowling

Sarah Dowling
Sarah Dowling is a Canadian poet, professor, and editor. Originally from Regina, Saskatchewan but has since lived in Québec, the UK, and around the United States. Her work focuses translingualism, political linguistics, and poetry, specifically in the North American region. She graduated with a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in 2012. Her dissertation, “Remote Intimacies: Multilingualism in Contemporary Poetry”, was completed under advisor Charles Bernstein. Since then, a large portion of her written work has centered heavily on the effect of colonial monolingualism on the modern-day linguistic landscapes of indigenous and non-white communities of the region. Dowling approaches these topics mainly from a creative writing and poetry stance, while simultaneously deepening her analyses through academic articles and chapters.

She currently works as a professor of Comparative Literature at The University of Toronto. Previously, she has held professorships at The University of Iowa, The University of Washington: Bothell, and guest lectured at other institutions. Throughout these employments she has worked in the departments of Comparative Literature, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Creative Writing, and Poetry. She is also a member of multiple poetry societies in North America. She even helped organize “North of Invention: A Festival of Canadian Poetry” back in 2011 while working on her dissertation. In addition to being a university professor she is a published author, having written three books: Down (2014), Translingual Poetics (2018), and Entering Sappho (2020).