Sarah E Chinn
Biographic Data
| ID | 267429 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah E Chinn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah E |
| FAMILY NAME | Chinn |
| SIGNATURE | CHINN S E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hunter College, City University of New York, New York, New York |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Golden Years
Reimagining the Republic
Albion W. Tourgée (1838–1905) was a major force for social, legal, and literary transformation in the second half of the nineteenth century. Best known for his Reconstruction novels A Fool’s Errand (1879) and Bricks without Straw (1880), and for his key role in the civil rights case Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), challenging Louisiana’s law segregating railroad cars, Tourgée published more than a dozen novels and a volume of short stories, as well as…
Starring Women
Reading many histories of the American theater in the early to mid-nineteenth century, one might be forgiven for thinking that the early American stage was dominated by male actors, especially Edwin Forrest. While Forrest and some of his contemporaries, such as Junius Brutus Booth and his son, Edwin Booth, were powerful forces, they were equally matched by their female counterparts. Indeed, in the second third of the nineteenth century, as Sara A…
Creole Drama
Reviewed by: Creole Drama: Theatre and Society in Antebellum New Orleans by Juliane Braun Jason Fitzgerald and Sarah E. Chinn CREOLE DRAMA: THEATRE AND SOCIETY IN ANTEBELLUM NEW ORLEANS. By Juliane Braun. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019; pp. 280. Anyone looking back at the history of New Orleans as Louisiana joined the Confederacy would have been astounded by the changes the city had undergone since it was added to the United …
The Criminalization of Black Children
Tera Eva Agyepong's The Criminalization of Black Children fills important gaps in childhood studies, African American history, and American history. Agyepong traces the roots of what we now call the school-to-prison pipeline by showing how Chicago's impoverished black children were tossed into the criminal justice system as their European immigrant counterparts were receiving social services from the government and Progressive Era activists. Chic…
Enslavement and the Temporality of Childhood
This article explores how thinking about the time of childhood through the lens of US slavery forces us to rethink both phenomena. According to many of the people who lived through it, enslaved childhood was a shifting, episodic phenomenon that had multiple points of definition. Throughout the nineteenth century, as their adult selves looked back on their early years, formerly enslaved people adopted a number of different strategies to understand…
Get Out of My Room! A History of Teen Bedrooms in America
In 1982 I was fourteen years old, and the British synthpop duo Yazoo's Upstairs at Eric's (1982) was continually rotating on my record player. Buried deep on side 1 of the album was a quirky gem, “In My Room.” The lyrics spoke to the paradoxical status of my teenage bedroom, a site of both refuge and isolation: “And in the room locked up inside me / The cutout magazines remind me / I sit and wait alone in my room.” As it turns out, my relationshi…
Fantasies of Identification
Ellen Samuels’s masterful first book, Fantasies of Identification: Disability, Gender, Race , begins its analytical journey in 1845, which is, in her telling, a signal year in US literature, culture, and history. Three of the central events of the year that she brings to our attention seem, on first glance, unrelated: the initial report by Nathan Smith Davis that led to the founding of the American Medical Association two years later; the publica…
Emergent US Literatures
We are at a moment in which the overview as a critical genre has a new, even sexy, status. The granddaddy of this shift is Franco Moretti’s 2005 book Graphs, Maps, Trees, which takes the very, very large and long view, transhistorically and transnationally, charting the emergence of genres and of entire literary traditions by using enormous data sets. We can also thank Stephen Best and Sharon Marcus for championing “surface reading,” an element o…
Childhood and Nineteenth-Century American Theatre
Although unknown now, the Marsh Troupe of Juvenile Comedians toured the world to rapturous audiences in the mid-to-late nineteenth century. Starting off in Troy, NY, the company ventured as far as Australia, New Zealand, and Tahiti, performed everything from Shakespeare to slapstick comedy to complex dance routines, and comprised up to forty boys and girls from the ages of five to eighteen. While they were never big stars, they were ubiquitous: h…
Masculinity and National Identity on the Early American Stage
This essay explores how the early American stage functioned as an incubator for ideas about national identity, artistic expression, and masculinity. Reading four plays from the early years of the Republic – Royall Tyler’s The Contrast , William Dunlap’s André , John Augustus Stone’s Metamora , and Robert Montgomery Bird’s The Gladiator , I demonstrate how early American drama addressed changing concepts of ideal masculinity, republican democracy,…
Racialized Things
Racialized Things Sarah E. Chinn (bio) Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights. By Robin Bernstein. New York: New York University Press, 2011. 318 pages. $75 (cloth). $24 (paper). Troubling Vision: Performance, Visuality, and Blackness. By Nicole R. Fleetwood. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011. 296pages. $75(cloth). $25(paper). Racial Indigestion: Eating Bodies in the Nineteenth Century. By Kyla Wazan…
Introduction
Introduction: Coming to Ruin Sarah E. Chinn (bio) and Rupal Oza (bio) We came to the subject of ruin because destruction and disaster seemed to be everywhere we looked. In the wake of Hurricane Katrina and the subsequent collapse of the levees protecting New Orleans, the tsunami in Southeast Asia, the earthquake in Haiti, the floods in Pakistan, the Japanese tsunami and nuclear plant crisis, the tornadoes in the South and Midwest of the United St…
Keeping Secrets
Book Review| June 01 2008 KEEPING SECRETS Rhetorical Secrets: Mapping Gay Identity and Queer Resistance in Contemporary America Davin Allen Grindstaff Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2006. viii + 194 pp. Sarah E. Chinn Sarah E. Chinn Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2008) 14 (2-3): 445–447. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2007-047 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions …
Rethinking Rebellion in the 1950s
Book Review| October 01 2007 RETHINKING REBELLION IN THE 1950S Rebels: Youth and the Cold War Origins of Identity Leerom Medovoi Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006. ix + 387 pp. Sarah E. Chinn Sarah E. Chinn Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2007) 13 (4): 586–588. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2007-014 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Sarah E. C…
Here, Queer, and Going Shopping
Book Review| January 01 2006 HERE, QUEER, AND GOING SHOPPING Sarah E. Chinn Sarah E. Chinn Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2006) 12 (1): 150–152. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-12-1-150 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Sarah E. Chinn; HERE, QUEER, AND GOING SHOPPING. GLQ 1 January 2006; 12 (1): 150–152. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-12-1-150 …
Tackling the “Masculinity Crisis
Book Review| June 01 2006 TACKLING THE “MASCULINITY CRISIS”: Male Identity in the 1950s Men in the Middle: Searching for Masculinity in the 1950s James Gilbert Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. x + 269 pp. Sarah E. Chinn Sarah E. Chinn Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2006) 12 (3): 507–510. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2005-009 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permission…
Gender, Sex, and Disability from Helen Keller to Tiny Tim
Book Review| January 01 2006 Gender, Sex, and Disability from Helen Keller to Tiny Tim Martha Stoddard Holmes, Fictions of Affliction: Physical Disability in Victorian Culture. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2004; Kim E. Nielsen, The Radical Lives of Helen Keller. New York: New York University Press, 2004. Sarah E. Chinn Sarah E. Chinn Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (2006) 2006 (94): 24…
Anatomizing Eugenics
Book Review| June 01 2005 ANATOMIZING EUGENICS: Tracing the Legacy of Biology in Public Policy Nancy Ordover Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003. xxviii +297 pp. Sarah E. Chinn Sarah E. Chinn Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2005) 11 (3): 472–475. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-11-3-472 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Sarah E. Chinn; ANA…
In Defiance of the Law
Book Review| December 01 2003 In Defiance of the Law: From Ann Hutchinson to Toni Morrison; Race, Citizenship, and Law in American Literature By Marisa Anne Pagnattaro. New York: Peter Lang. 2001. xii, 229 pp. Paper,$24.95.By Gregg D. Crane. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2002. xi, 299 pp. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $22.00. Sarah E. Chinn Sarah E. Chinn Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2003) 75 (4): 895…
Feeling Her Way
Research Article| April 01 2003 FEELING HER WAY: Audre Lorde and the Power of Touch Sarah E. Chinn Sarah E. Chinn Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2003) 9 (1-2): 181–204. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-9-1-2-181 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Sarah E. Chinn; FEELING HER WAY: Audre Lorde and the Power of Touch. GLQ 1 April 2003; 9 (1-2): 181–204. do…
Heroic Desire
Feeling Her Way
Research Article| April 01 2003 FEELING HER WAY: Audre Lorde and the Power of Touch Sarah E. Chinn Sarah E. Chinn Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2003) 9 (1-2): 181–204. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-9-1-2-181 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Sarah E. Chinn; FEELING HER WAY: Audre Lorde and the Power of Touch. GLQ 1 April 2003; 9 (1-2): 181–204. do…
Tackling the “Masculinity Crisis
Book Review| June 01 2006 TACKLING THE “MASCULINITY CRISIS”: Male Identity in the 1950s Men in the Middle: Searching for Masculinity in the 1950s James Gilbert Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. x + 269 pp. Sarah E. Chinn Sarah E. Chinn Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2006) 12 (3): 507–510. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2005-009 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permission…
The Criminalization of Black Children
Tera Eva Agyepong's The Criminalization of Black Children fills important gaps in childhood studies, African American history, and American history. Agyepong traces the roots of what we now call the school-to-prison pipeline by showing how Chicago's impoverished black children were tossed into the criminal justice system as their European immigrant counterparts were receiving social services from the government and Progressive Era activists. Chic…
Enslavement and the Temporality of Childhood
This article explores how thinking about the time of childhood through the lens of US slavery forces us to rethink both phenomena. According to many of the people who lived through it, enslaved childhood was a shifting, episodic phenomenon that had multiple points of definition. Throughout the nineteenth century, as their adult selves looked back on their early years, formerly enslaved people adopted a number of different strategies to understand…
Get Out of My Room! A History of Teen Bedrooms in America
In 1982 I was fourteen years old, and the British synthpop duo Yazoo's Upstairs at Eric's (1982) was continually rotating on my record player. Buried deep on side 1 of the album was a quirky gem, “In My Room.” The lyrics spoke to the paradoxical status of my teenage bedroom, a site of both refuge and isolation: “And in the room locked up inside me / The cutout magazines remind me / I sit and wait alone in my room.” As it turns out, my relationshi…
Racialized Things
Racialized Things Sarah E. Chinn (bio) Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights. By Robin Bernstein. New York: New York University Press, 2011. 318 pages. $75 (cloth). $24 (paper). Troubling Vision: Performance, Visuality, and Blackness. By Nicole R. Fleetwood. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011. 296pages. $75(cloth). $25(paper). Racial Indigestion: Eating Bodies in the Nineteenth Century. By Kyla Wazan…
Heroic Desire
In Defiance of the Law
Book Review| December 01 2003 In Defiance of the Law: From Ann Hutchinson to Toni Morrison; Race, Citizenship, and Law in American Literature By Marisa Anne Pagnattaro. New York: Peter Lang. 2001. xii, 229 pp. Paper,$24.95.By Gregg D. Crane. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2002. xi, 299 pp. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $22.00. Sarah E. Chinn Sarah E. Chinn Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2003) 75 (4): 895…
Feeling Her Way
Research Article| April 01 2003 FEELING HER WAY: Audre Lorde and the Power of Touch Sarah E. Chinn Sarah E. Chinn Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2003) 9 (1-2): 181–204. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-9-1-2-181 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Sarah E. Chinn; FEELING HER WAY: Audre Lorde and the Power of Touch. GLQ 1 April 2003; 9 (1-2): 181–204. do…
Anatomizing Eugenics
Book Review| June 01 2005 ANATOMIZING EUGENICS: Tracing the Legacy of Biology in Public Policy Nancy Ordover Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003. xxviii +297 pp. Sarah E. Chinn Sarah E. Chinn Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2005) 11 (3): 472–475. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-11-3-472 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Sarah E. Chinn; ANA…
Here, Queer, and Going Shopping
Book Review| January 01 2006 HERE, QUEER, AND GOING SHOPPING Sarah E. Chinn Sarah E. Chinn Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2006) 12 (1): 150–152. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-12-1-150 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Sarah E. Chinn; HERE, QUEER, AND GOING SHOPPING. GLQ 1 January 2006; 12 (1): 150–152. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-12-1-150 …
Tackling the “Masculinity Crisis
Book Review| June 01 2006 TACKLING THE “MASCULINITY CRISIS”: Male Identity in the 1950s Men in the Middle: Searching for Masculinity in the 1950s James Gilbert Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. x + 269 pp. Sarah E. Chinn Sarah E. Chinn Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2006) 12 (3): 507–510. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2005-009 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permission…
Gender, Sex, and Disability from Helen Keller to Tiny Tim
Book Review| January 01 2006 Gender, Sex, and Disability from Helen Keller to Tiny Tim Martha Stoddard Holmes, Fictions of Affliction: Physical Disability in Victorian Culture. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2004; Kim E. Nielsen, The Radical Lives of Helen Keller. New York: New York University Press, 2004. Sarah E. Chinn Sarah E. Chinn Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (2006) 2006 (94): 24…
Rethinking Rebellion in the 1950s
Book Review| October 01 2007 RETHINKING REBELLION IN THE 1950S Rebels: Youth and the Cold War Origins of Identity Leerom Medovoi Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006. ix + 387 pp. Sarah E. Chinn Sarah E. Chinn Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2007) 13 (4): 586–588. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2007-014 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Sarah E. C…
Keeping Secrets
Book Review| June 01 2008 KEEPING SECRETS Rhetorical Secrets: Mapping Gay Identity and Queer Resistance in Contemporary America Davin Allen Grindstaff Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2006. viii + 194 pp. Sarah E. Chinn Sarah E. Chinn Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2008) 14 (2-3): 445–447. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2007-047 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions …
Introduction
Introduction: Coming to Ruin Sarah E. Chinn (bio) and Rupal Oza (bio) We came to the subject of ruin because destruction and disaster seemed to be everywhere we looked. In the wake of Hurricane Katrina and the subsequent collapse of the levees protecting New Orleans, the tsunami in Southeast Asia, the earthquake in Haiti, the floods in Pakistan, the Japanese tsunami and nuclear plant crisis, the tornadoes in the South and Midwest of the United St…
Masculinity and National Identity on the Early American Stage
This essay explores how the early American stage functioned as an incubator for ideas about national identity, artistic expression, and masculinity. Reading four plays from the early years of the Republic – Royall Tyler’s The Contrast , William Dunlap’s André , John Augustus Stone’s Metamora , and Robert Montgomery Bird’s The Gladiator , I demonstrate how early American drama addressed changing concepts of ideal masculinity, republican democracy,…
Racialized Things
Racialized Things Sarah E. Chinn (bio) Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights. By Robin Bernstein. New York: New York University Press, 2011. 318 pages. $75 (cloth). $24 (paper). Troubling Vision: Performance, Visuality, and Blackness. By Nicole R. Fleetwood. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011. 296pages. $75(cloth). $25(paper). Racial Indigestion: Eating Bodies in the Nineteenth Century. By Kyla Wazan…
Fantasies of Identification
Ellen Samuels’s masterful first book, Fantasies of Identification: Disability, Gender, Race , begins its analytical journey in 1845, which is, in her telling, a signal year in US literature, culture, and history. Three of the central events of the year that she brings to our attention seem, on first glance, unrelated: the initial report by Nathan Smith Davis that led to the founding of the American Medical Association two years later; the publica…
Emergent US Literatures
We are at a moment in which the overview as a critical genre has a new, even sexy, status. The granddaddy of this shift is Franco Moretti’s 2005 book Graphs, Maps, Trees, which takes the very, very large and long view, transhistorically and transnationally, charting the emergence of genres and of entire literary traditions by using enormous data sets. We can also thank Stephen Best and Sharon Marcus for championing “surface reading,” an element o…
Childhood and Nineteenth-Century American Theatre
Although unknown now, the Marsh Troupe of Juvenile Comedians toured the world to rapturous audiences in the mid-to-late nineteenth century. Starting off in Troy, NY, the company ventured as far as Australia, New Zealand, and Tahiti, performed everything from Shakespeare to slapstick comedy to complex dance routines, and comprised up to forty boys and girls from the ages of five to eighteen. While they were never big stars, they were ubiquitous: h…
Get Out of My Room! A History of Teen Bedrooms in America
In 1982 I was fourteen years old, and the British synthpop duo Yazoo's Upstairs at Eric's (1982) was continually rotating on my record player. Buried deep on side 1 of the album was a quirky gem, “In My Room.” The lyrics spoke to the paradoxical status of my teenage bedroom, a site of both refuge and isolation: “And in the room locked up inside me / The cutout magazines remind me / I sit and wait alone in my room.” As it turns out, my relationshi…
Creole Drama
Reviewed by: Creole Drama: Theatre and Society in Antebellum New Orleans by Juliane Braun Jason Fitzgerald and Sarah E. Chinn CREOLE DRAMA: THEATRE AND SOCIETY IN ANTEBELLUM NEW ORLEANS. By Juliane Braun. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019; pp. 280. Anyone looking back at the history of New Orleans as Louisiana joined the Confederacy would have been astounded by the changes the city had undergone since it was added to the United …
The Criminalization of Black Children
Tera Eva Agyepong's The Criminalization of Black Children fills important gaps in childhood studies, African American history, and American history. Agyepong traces the roots of what we now call the school-to-prison pipeline by showing how Chicago's impoverished black children were tossed into the criminal justice system as their European immigrant counterparts were receiving social services from the government and Progressive Era activists. Chic…
Enslavement and the Temporality of Childhood
This article explores how thinking about the time of childhood through the lens of US slavery forces us to rethink both phenomena. According to many of the people who lived through it, enslaved childhood was a shifting, episodic phenomenon that had multiple points of definition. Throughout the nineteenth century, as their adult selves looked back on their early years, formerly enslaved people adopted a number of different strategies to understand…
Reimagining the Republic
Albion W. Tourgée (1838–1905) was a major force for social, legal, and literary transformation in the second half of the nineteenth century. Best known for his Reconstruction novels A Fool’s Errand (1879) and Bricks without Straw (1880), and for his key role in the civil rights case Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), challenging Louisiana’s law segregating railroad cars, Tourgée published more than a dozen novels and a volume of short stories, as well as…
Starring Women
Reading many histories of the American theater in the early to mid-nineteenth century, one might be forgiven for thinking that the early American stage was dominated by male actors, especially Edwin Forrest. While Forrest and some of his contemporaries, such as Junius Brutus Booth and his son, Edwin Booth, were powerful forces, they were equally matched by their female counterparts. Indeed, in the second third of the nineteenth century, as Sara A…
Golden Years
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