Pembroke Center

Sarah Richter holds a PhD from the Department of Performance Studies at New York University, where she received the Monroe Lippman Memorial Prize for Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation. She has taught performance theory at NYU, The Cooper Union, and The New School, and her writing has appeared in the Journal of Visual Culture, TDR/The Drama Review, and Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory. She is a member of the Women & Performance editorial collective, and the former managing editor. In 2023-4, Sarah was a Critical Studies Fellow at the Whitney Independent Studies Program. During her postdoctoral fellowship at the Pembroke Center, she will teach a class titled “Art of Survival.” Throughout, artists' work with endurance, deprivation, repair, memorial, and mutual aid name and contest power's hold over life itself.