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Sarah Henstra is a writer and scholar specializing in 20th century British fiction. She is the author of the novels Red Word, which won the 2018 Governor General’s Literary Award for fiction, Mad Miss Mimic (2015), and Contain Multitudes (2019). Henstra’s monograph, Counter-Memorial Impulse in Twentieth-Century English Fiction (Palgrave, 2009), examines the narrative effects of unmournable loss in the works of fiction writers such as Ford Madox Ford, Doris Lessing, and Jeanette Winterson. Her recent scholarly publications include a study of the construction of women’s mourning in British propaganda during World War I and a pedagogical consideration of Joe Sacco’s “comics journalism.” She teaches courses in the novel, Gothic literature, fairy tales, critical theory, and creative writing.
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