Pembroke Center

Sarah Richter is a writer and theorist from Florida. Prior to her current role as an adjunct lecturer in Gender and Sexuality Studies, she was a postdoctoral fellow for the Pembroke Seminar, "Unwriting the Anthropocene." In 2024, Sarah received a PhD (with distinction) from Performance Studies at NYU. Her dissertation considered anarchism as a practice of shelter, and was generously supported by residencies at ΎΛΗ[matter]HYLE in Athens, Greece and by the Mainzer Fellowship for love and sexuality studies. In addition to Brown and NYU, Sarah has taught art history at Cooper Union and gone on strike at The New School. Her writing on art, politics, and performance has appeared in the Journal of Visual Culture, PMLA, TDR/The Drama Review, and Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory, where she was the former managing editor. In 2023-4, Sarah was a Helena Rubenstein Critical Studies Fellow at the Whitney ISP. 

This year, Sarah 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.