Sarah is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at The University of Texas at Arlington where she teaches composition and literature. She currently serves as Coordinator of Social Media, of the Rhetoric and Writing Studies Minor, and of the Internship Program for her department and serves as a MAFE Facilitator for UTA’s Center for Research on Teaching and Learning Excellence, helping faculty incorporate experiential learning into their courses. Her praxis interests include experiential learning, the materiality of classrooms and of reading and writing processes, posthumanist pedagogy, posthumanism, critical theory, composition studies, AI in composition studies, AI in literature, speculative fiction, fat studies, contemporary literature, young adult literature, feminism, disability theory, agential realism, and post-qualitative inquiry. Her work on “teaching elsewhere,” a posthumanist pedagogy, is outlined in a chapter for Towards Posthumanism in Education: Theoretical Entanglements and Pedagogical Mappings, forthcoming in May 2024. Her work in disability and fat studies has been published in Fat Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Body Weight and Society. She holds a BA in English from UT Austin and an M.Ed. in Teaching from UTA.

Sarah A. Shelton with Adobe Firefly. A cyborg-Socrates sits among Roman ruins and tells the story of Thamus chastising Theuth for creating writing. In Plato’s Phaedrus, Socrates uses a conversation between the king Thamus and the god Theuth who invented writing (among other things) to critique writing as a tool that would degrade memory and create false wisdom. For my thoughts on how this relates to current conversations on AI, see the full post on LinkedIn.