Sara Marcus
English
Assistant Professor
- American and African American literature
- American popular music
- Feminism
- Social movements and the arts
- LGBTQ+ movements and culture
- Emotion in politics
- Sound studies
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WANE 15 Fort Wayne
From ‘brat’ to coconuts, Indiana professor explains social media presence of Vice President Kamala Harris
Video
July 25, 2024
“It opens the floodgates of, for people on social media kind of embracing this idea that rather than being liabilities for Kamala Harris, this, this relative informality that can, that can come out in her public per performances at some point might actually be a selling point,” said Notre Dame English professor Sara Marcus.
WSBT TV
Vice President Kamala Harris embraces social media trend
Video
July 24, 2024
“You're seeing the, the explosion of a ton of pent up youth energy that had nowhere to go for as long as the campaign was this slow motion car wreck between two men, well past retirement age,” said Sara Marcus, Notre Dame English professor.
The New Yorker
The Disciplining Power of Disappointment: In a new book, Sara Marcus argues that American politics are defined by unfulfilled desire.
August 11, 2023
If optimism is the disposition of the victor, then what is the outlook of the victim or survivor of conquest and domination? For Sara Marcus, an assistant professor of English at the University of Notre Dame, it is disappointment. In a new book, “Political Disappointment,” Marcus describes the titular emotion as “untimely desire” or “a longing for fundamental change that outlasts a historical moment when it might have been fulfilled.”