Sarah Brouillette

Sarah Brouillette is a professor in the department of English at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada.

Writing on Public Books

The trauma plot and the slut-shaming dossier are actually parallel formations, reveals “The Guest.”

Immediacy, here, is an aesthetics of ambivalent aspiration, within a hierarchically ordered and immobilizing class- and race-based cultural system.

If you want to support readers, the best hope will always be helping do away with economic compulsion and the division of labor.

On Emily Witt’s smart and sometimes menacing study of 21st-century intimacy.