Office: 215 Belfast Hall, Bangor Campus
Phone: (207) 262-7762
Email: sarah.hentges@maine.edu
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About
Education
B.A., Humboldt State University, 1997
M.A., Oregon State University, 2000
Ph.D., Washington State University, 2006
Sarah Hentges is an assistant professor of American studies and teaches a wide range of classes in American studies, English, and women's studies. She loves her students and every class she teaches is her favorite, especially courses in theory and criticism.
While she was always "meant to be" an English major, Sarah found her true passion in interdisciplinary studies where she could combine her diverse interests and embrace a multitude of approaches to literature and culture. While a PhD student, Sarah published her book, Pictures of Girlhood: Modern Female Adolescence on Film, and her work has also appeared in Ethnic Studies Review (about the TV show Survivor), Feminist Collections, and Notes on American Literature. She is now the Associate editor for Notes on American Literature and she has several projects in process including a Mind/Body Feminist Fitness Memoir/Manifesta.
Sarah loves to read and has rediscovered this love through her favorite author, Octavia Butler. In her "spare time" she devours books and especially enjoys science fiction/speculative fiction, young adult literature, and ethnic American literature. And in all of these she tends to gravitate to literature by and about women. Also in her spare time, Sarah teaches a variety of fitness classes including yoga, cardio kickboxing, and belly dance.
Courses
Her teaching in the English program includes ENG 101: College Writing; ENG 251W: American Literature from 1900 to the Present; ENG 300: Literary Theory and Criticism (on-line); ENG 4XX: Race and Ethnicity in American Literature and Culture; and AME/ENG 418: Cultural Criticism and Theory: The Arts of Social Change. She also taught a topics course on Maya Angelou's work in the spring of 2009.
Outside of the English program, her teaching includes: AME 201W: Introduction to American Studies; WST 101W: Introduction to Women's Studies; AME/MUS 303: Hip Hop: Art, Culture, and Politics; AME/WST 304: American Girls: Identity, Culture, and Empowerment; and AME/WST 305: Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality in American Culture.
