Sara Santos

I'm a third year English Ph.D. student at Stony Brook University, and I teach Composition at the Writing Program. My work focuses on posthumanism, biopolitics and ecocriticism in late 20th century and contemporary literature. My dissertation will examine the way characters' movements across landscape and infrastructure (walking, driving, swimming, etc.) works to trace, re/produce and/or subvert ideology. I'm an Em dash enthusiast.

Let’s Get Personal: Teaching the Literacy Narrative in First Year Composition

Published by Sara Santos on March 21, 2018 | 6 Responses

“The narrative essay was the easiest because all I had to do was write about myself,” and “I struggled with the personal narrative the most because I’m not used to writing about myself to a wider audience” are the reactions I usually get from my First Year Composition students when, at the end of fifteen […]

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Sara Santos

Let’s Get Personal: Teaching the Literacy Narrative in First Year Composition

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