Dr. Wasserman is not accepting new graduate students for the 2023-24 academic year. ​

Sarah Wasserman specializes in American literature from 1900 to today, with an emphasis on post-1945 and contemporary fiction. Her research and teaching interests include material culture studies, literary theory, popular culture, and media studies. Her current book project, Computer Love, examines the fantasies, predictions, hopes, and fears that circulated throughout the pop culture of the 1980s about computers and what impact they would have on our love lives. Professor Wasserman is the co-editor of Modelwork: The Material Culture of Making and Knowing (2021), Cultures of Obsolescence: History, Materiality, and the Digital Age (2015) and co-curator of the Stanford Arcade Colloquy, "Thing Theory in Literary Studies." Her essays and reviews have appeared in PMLA,American Literary History, Contemporary Literature, Novel, Literature Compass, The Journal of American Studies, and numerous edited collections. She also writes for public venues such as Public Books and The Los Angeles Review of Books. Before joining the department at the University of Delaware, Professor Wasserman taught in Germany at the JFK Institute for North American Studies at the Free University Berlin. She is the recipient of the University of Delaware's College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Advising Award and the Wayne C. Booth Prize for Excellence in Teaching from the University of Chicago.