Sarah Cornish

Sarah E. Cornish, PhD, is Professor of English and Department Chair at the University of Northern Colorado, Director of the Feminist inter/Modernist Association, and Co-Editor of the The Space Between: Literature and Culture, 1914-1945, an open access, peer-reviewed journal. Her research is on the interwar and WWII periods with a specific focus on women writers, their cultural contributions, transatlantic entanglements, and political interventions. She teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in early to mid-twentieth century literature and culture.    

PhD in English Literature (Modernist Studies), Fordham University, 2013. 

MA in English Literature and Irish Studies, Boston College, 2003. 

BA in English Literature, University of California – Irvine, 2000. 

English Department Chair, Department. (Spring 2024 – Present). 

Professor, University of Northern Colorado. (2024 – Present). 

Associate Professor, University of Northern Colorado. (2018 – 2024). 

Assistant Professor, University of Northern Colorado. (2013 – 2018). 

Select Professional Service 

Vice Program Chair, Modernist Studies Association (MSA). (October 2025 – Present). 

Editor, Journal Editor, The Space Between: Literature and Culture, 1914-1945. (July 1, 2025 – Present). 

Editorial Review Board Member, Feminist Modernist Studies. (August 2023 – Present). 

Director, Feminist inter/Modernist Association. (2015 – Present). 

Professional Memberships 

Council of Editors of Learned Journals (CELJ) 

Feminist inter/Modernist Association (FiMA), Co-founder and Executive Director 

The Space Between Society 

Modernist Studies Association (MSA) 

Modern Language Association (MLA) 

British and American (transatlantic) modernism; women writers; “the middlebrow”; literary and social culture of the interwar period; urban and space/place theory; architecture and the built environment; feminist theory; phenomenology of the city; women in the city; visual culture and spectacle; film history and theory (in particular French New Wave, British Cinema, and Pre-Code Hollywood); the digital turn (practices in Digital Humanities, multimodality, remediation).

Cornish, S. & Dinsman, M. (Eds.) (2025). The Space Between: Literature and Culture, 1914-1945 | General Issue: Vol. 21. The Space Between: Literature and Culture, 1914-1945. https://scalar.usc.edu/works/the-space-between-literature-and-culture-1914-1945/vol21_2025_contents 

Cornish, S. (2024). “New World Women and the Labour Party Win in Marghanita Laski’s The Village (1952)”. In Melissa Dinsman Megan Faragher & R. Richardson (Eds.), Mid-Centruy Women’s Writing: Disrupting the Public/Private Divide. University of Manchester Press. 

Cornish, S. & Hollis, C., Fox, M., Konchar Farr, C. (Eds.) (2023). Feminist Publishing Against the Pandemic (Special Issue). Feminist Modernist Studies: Vol. 6 (pp. 1–77). Feminist Modernist Studies. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1080/24692921.2023.2171403 

Cornish, S. (2023). “Notoriously an inarticulate nation”: Feeling World War II through Mollie Panter-Downes’s London Letters. The Space Between: Literature and Culture, 1914-1945, Vol. 18 (2022). http://www.spacebetweenjournal.org/ 

Cornish, S. (2021). ’Playing Stupid’: Teaching the Self-Taught Woman through Anita Loos, Irmgard Keun, and Stevie Smith. In J. Utell (Ed.), Teaching Modernist Women’s Writing in English (pp. 137–147). Modern Language Association Press. 

Cornish, S. & Pogorelskin, A. (Eds.) (2021). International Cinema in the Space Between: The Long Decade of the 1930s (Special Issue): Vol. 16. The Space Between: Literature and Culture, 1914-1945. https://scalar.usc.edu/works/the-space-between-literature-and-culture-1914-1945/index 

Cornish, S. (2020). “‘A World of Tomorrow’: Trauma, Urbicide, and Documentation in A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City.” Twentieth Century Literature Vol. 66 (2), pp. 185–206. https://doi.org/https://doi-org.unco.idm.oclc.org/10.1215/0041462X-8536154 

Cornish, S. (2017). “Fashion is Spinach, but Style is Politics: Elizabeth Hawes’s Pioneering Feminism.” Feminist Modernist Studies Vol. 1, pp. 74–95. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1080/24692921.2017.1385832 

Cornish, S. (2016). ‘Quota Quickies Threaten Audience Intelligence Levels!’: The power of the screen in Betty Miller’s Farewell Leicester Square. In W. Chapman (Ed.), Virginia Woolf and Her Female Contemporaries. Clemson UP. 

Cornish, S. (2015). “Imagined ’ineffable space’: Woolf’s architectural release in America, Which I Have Never Seen.” Virginia Woolf Miscellany, Vol. 87, pp. 26–28. 

Cornish, S., & Evans, E. (Eds.) (2010). Woolf and the City: Selected Papers from the 19th Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf. Clemson UP. 

• 2015, Nominated for Inspiring Woman Award, UNC
• 2014, First Year Scholars Outstanding Faculty and Staff Award, UNC