Sarah Brophy
Biographic Data
| ID | 82578 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah Brophy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah |
| FAMILY NAME | Brophy |
| SIGNATURE | BROPHY S |
| AFFILIATIONS | McMaster University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9940-4192 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 24 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Ethnic minority underachievement in UK higher education
This study evaluated the intersectionality thesis, which suggests that the interaction of ethnicity, sex, and socioeconomic status significantly affects achievement in UK higher education.The study used a sample of 135,699 students from the Graduate Outcomes survey for the 2018/19 cohort, the last to leave higher education before the COVID-19 pandemic.Conditioning on a rich set of background characteristics, results from a series of regressions i…
Field of study and the subjective labour market outcomes of UK graduates
Field choice in higher education has been shown to be highly influential on earnings and employment, yet little is known about how field of study affects recent graduates’ subjective labour market outcomes. This article uses ‘Graduate Voice’ data from the 2018/19 UK Graduate Outcomes survey to examine the effect of field choice on three subjective measures: whether work is meaningful, career is on track, and using graduate skills. Employing a sel…
Associate Editors in Conversation
Ethnicity and UK graduate migration
This paper reports on the employment migration behavior of non‐White ethnic minority graduates in the United Kingdom for the 2018/2019 graduation cohort, which is the last cohort to enter the labor market before the COVID‐19 pandemic. Using data from the new Graduate Outcomes survey and controlling for a rich set of background characteristics, the findings indicate that ethnic minority graduates are more likely than their White counterparts to fi…
Mask Aesthetics
Affirming masks’ proven efficacy in preventing the airborne transmission of COVID-19, this paper seeks to understand face covering during the pandemic from a different but complementary angle: that is, as a deeply relational and thoroughly multimodal practice. Drawing on concepts of automediality, crip and feminist theories of affect and embodiment, biopolitics, and pandemic temporalities, I analyze artists’ mask-themed projects created during th…
Asynchronous Encounters
This essay engages with pandemic-era artistic practice, asking how digital technologies are being taken up out of desires and attempts to be intimate with, proximate to, ‘contemporary’ with one another. Drawing on theories of pandemic temporality and on media analysis approaches that highlight the digital’s materiality, affectivity, and self-reflexivity, we think with three first-person, visual-digital works composed, circulated, and archived dur…
Getting in, getting on, going further
Transitions from education into work, or as part of career change and development, are increasingly central to policy debate and academic inquiry. However, the role that employers play in shaping transition is often overlooked. In this paper, we examine this issue through the experiences of a graduating cohort of ‘degree apprentices’. We present original analysis of new empirical data from what we believe to be the first substantive qualitative l…
Encounters with Kusama
The 2018 exhibition “Infinity Mirrors” at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) in Toronto, and the accompanying social media phenomenon #InfiniteKusama, harnessed the myth of the “mad genius” who “overcame” hardship in its celebration of the life and work of artist Yayoi Kusama, yet veered away from a nuanced engagement with disability, madness/mental illness, and access. Desiring a crip version of the artist and psychiatric user/survivor, we take up…
Mediated Embodiments|Embodied Meditations
This introduction to the Embodiment special issue of a|b begins by considering how Johanna Hedva's “Sick Woman Theory” crystallizes current conceptualizations of embodied selfhood and deploys online self-representational practices. The introduction goes on to situate the contributors’ discussions of installation art, 3-D printing, painting, graphic narrative, prose memoir, performance, poetry, personal narrative, and collective embodiment as soci…
On the Times and Places of Embodied Testimony
This forum adopts a process-oriented approach to documenting material and online projects that nurture embodied knowledges for social justice. The contributors contemplate their involvement in collating refugee narratives online, participating in an academic workshop retreat, curating AIDS oral history archives, and pursuing decolonial directions for critical disability arts. They consider the power of embodied testimonies to enact social change …
Tainted Witness
Reviewed by: Tainted Witness: Why We Doubt What Women Say About Their by Leigh Gilmore Sarah Brophy (bio) Leigh Gilmore. Tainted Witness: Why We Doubt What Women Say About Their Lives Columbia UP 2017, 240 pp. ISBN 978-0231177146, $30 hard-cover; $22 paperback. As the #MeToo hashtag began to go viral in October 2017, prompting an overdue reckoning with endemic sexual harassment and assault, memoirist Dorothy Allison's epigram resurfaced in my tho…
Learning with The 500 Years of Resistance Comic Book in a Cultural Studies Course
In 2013, I was asked to revise the second-year core course, Concepts of Culture, for our English and Cultural Studies undergraduate students at McMaster University, expanding it from one semester t
Special Issue of a/b
Cripping the Museum
In November 2010, there was a conference on "Health, Embodiment, and Visual Culture" at McMaster University and an exhibition called "Scrapes: Unruly Embodiments in Video Art" at the McMaster Museum of Art. This article pursues the idea and implications of "scrapes" and "to scrape": as a framework of disturbance and rupture; for knowing differently from a crip perspective; and for cripping museological praxis. Engaging closely with the visual and…
Postcolonial Intimacies
Energized by cross-disciplinary investigations, the field of intimacy studies generates epistemological sites akin to what Ann Laura Stoler, following Foucault's writing on the instrumentality of s
‘Not Without Ambivalence’
Introduction
(2012). Introduction: Pedagogy, Image Practices, and Contested Corporealities. Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies: Vol. 34, Pedagogy, Image Practices, and Contested Corporealities, pp. 75-81
Entangled Genealogies
Isolation is the hallmark of male migrant narratives of 1950s London. Consider V. S. Naipaul's depiction of the city as a “conglomeration of private cells” (The Mimic Men 22); or George Lamming's image of embittered black nightclub owners who, believing they “have no people” in the metropolis, violently force new migrants who arrive in search of lodging out into the street's lonely “cul-de-sac” (The Emigrants 278–81).1 Andrea Levy's historical no…
Lost Bodies
Entangled Genealogies
Journal Article Entangled Genealogies: White Femininity on the Threshold of Change in Andrea Levy's Small Island Get access Sarah Brophy Sarah Brophy McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 4, Issue 2, July 2010, Pages 100–113, https://doi.org/10.1093/cww/vvp012 Published: 01 July 2010
Troubled heroism
This article examines several feature-length films made in South Africa about HIV/AIDS, including Mother to child (2001), Looking for Busi (2001) and Yesterday (2004), in an attempt to chart and analyze identificatory possibilities offered to viewers. It argues that, despite the educative potential of these films, their emphasis on black women's capacity for self-sacrifice and transcendence is problematic in two significant ways: considering the …
Compassionate Leave”
“Compassionate Leave”?: HIV/AIDS and Collective Responsibility in Ingrid de Kok’s Terrestrial Things Sarah Brophy (bio) and Susan Spearey (bio) Over the course of her career, South African poet Ingrid de Kok has invited readers to encounter in intimate terms the physical, psychological, and spatial effects of entrenched difference, and to glimpse, often through radical gestures of empathy, the possibilities for social transformation.1 Like David …
Witnessing Aids
How to Have Theory in an Epidemic
Literature and Medicine - Volume 21, Number 2, Fall 2002
Entangled Genealogies
Journal Article Entangled Genealogies: White Femininity on the Threshold of Change in Andrea Levy's Small Island Get access Sarah Brophy Sarah Brophy McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 4, Issue 2, July 2010, Pages 100–113, https://doi.org/10.1093/cww/vvp012 Published: 01 July 2010
Getting in, getting on, going further
Transitions from education into work, or as part of career change and development, are increasingly central to policy debate and academic inquiry. However, the role that employers play in shaping transition is often overlooked. In this paper, we examine this issue through the experiences of a graduating cohort of ‘degree apprentices’. We present original analysis of new empirical data from what we believe to be the first substantive qualitative l…
Introduction
(2012). Introduction: Pedagogy, Image Practices, and Contested Corporealities. Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies: Vol. 34, Pedagogy, Image Practices, and Contested Corporealities, pp. 75-81
Encounters with Kusama
The 2018 exhibition “Infinity Mirrors” at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) in Toronto, and the accompanying social media phenomenon #InfiniteKusama, harnessed the myth of the “mad genius” who “overcame” hardship in its celebration of the life and work of artist Yayoi Kusama, yet veered away from a nuanced engagement with disability, madness/mental illness, and access. Desiring a crip version of the artist and psychiatric user/survivor, we take up…
How to Have Theory in an Epidemic
Literature and Medicine - Volume 21, Number 2, Fall 2002
Witnessing Aids
Compassionate Leave”
“Compassionate Leave”?: HIV/AIDS and Collective Responsibility in Ingrid de Kok’s Terrestrial Things Sarah Brophy (bio) and Susan Spearey (bio) Over the course of her career, South African poet Ingrid de Kok has invited readers to encounter in intimate terms the physical, psychological, and spatial effects of entrenched difference, and to glimpse, often through radical gestures of empathy, the possibilities for social transformation.1 Like David …
Troubled heroism
This article examines several feature-length films made in South Africa about HIV/AIDS, including Mother to child (2001), Looking for Busi (2001) and Yesterday (2004), in an attempt to chart and analyze identificatory possibilities offered to viewers. It argues that, despite the educative potential of these films, their emphasis on black women's capacity for self-sacrifice and transcendence is problematic in two significant ways: considering the …
Entangled Genealogies
Journal Article Entangled Genealogies: White Femininity on the Threshold of Change in Andrea Levy's Small Island Get access Sarah Brophy Sarah Brophy McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 4, Issue 2, July 2010, Pages 100–113, https://doi.org/10.1093/cww/vvp012 Published: 01 July 2010
Entangled Genealogies
Isolation is the hallmark of male migrant narratives of 1950s London. Consider V. S. Naipaul's depiction of the city as a “conglomeration of private cells” (The Mimic Men 22); or George Lamming's image of embittered black nightclub owners who, believing they “have no people” in the metropolis, violently force new migrants who arrive in search of lodging out into the street's lonely “cul-de-sac” (The Emigrants 278–81).1 Andrea Levy's historical no…
Lost Bodies
Introduction
(2012). Introduction: Pedagogy, Image Practices, and Contested Corporealities. Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies: Vol. 34, Pedagogy, Image Practices, and Contested Corporealities, pp. 75-81
Postcolonial Intimacies
Energized by cross-disciplinary investigations, the field of intimacy studies generates epistemological sites akin to what Ann Laura Stoler, following Foucault's writing on the instrumentality of s
‘Not Without Ambivalence’
Cripping the Museum
In November 2010, there was a conference on "Health, Embodiment, and Visual Culture" at McMaster University and an exhibition called "Scrapes: Unruly Embodiments in Video Art" at the McMaster Museum of Art. This article pursues the idea and implications of "scrapes" and "to scrape": as a framework of disturbance and rupture; for knowing differently from a crip perspective; and for cripping museological praxis. Engaging closely with the visual and…
Learning with The 500 Years of Resistance Comic Book in a Cultural Studies Course
In 2013, I was asked to revise the second-year core course, Concepts of Culture, for our English and Cultural Studies undergraduate students at McMaster University, expanding it from one semester t
Special Issue of a/b
Mediated Embodiments|Embodied Meditations
This introduction to the Embodiment special issue of a|b begins by considering how Johanna Hedva's “Sick Woman Theory” crystallizes current conceptualizations of embodied selfhood and deploys online self-representational practices. The introduction goes on to situate the contributors’ discussions of installation art, 3-D printing, painting, graphic narrative, prose memoir, performance, poetry, personal narrative, and collective embodiment as soci…
On the Times and Places of Embodied Testimony
This forum adopts a process-oriented approach to documenting material and online projects that nurture embodied knowledges for social justice. The contributors contemplate their involvement in collating refugee narratives online, participating in an academic workshop retreat, curating AIDS oral history archives, and pursuing decolonial directions for critical disability arts. They consider the power of embodied testimonies to enact social change …
Tainted Witness
Reviewed by: Tainted Witness: Why We Doubt What Women Say About Their by Leigh Gilmore Sarah Brophy (bio) Leigh Gilmore. Tainted Witness: Why We Doubt What Women Say About Their Lives Columbia UP 2017, 240 pp. ISBN 978-0231177146, $30 hard-cover; $22 paperback. As the #MeToo hashtag began to go viral in October 2017, prompting an overdue reckoning with endemic sexual harassment and assault, memoirist Dorothy Allison's epigram resurfaced in my tho…
Encounters with Kusama
The 2018 exhibition “Infinity Mirrors” at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) in Toronto, and the accompanying social media phenomenon #InfiniteKusama, harnessed the myth of the “mad genius” who “overcame” hardship in its celebration of the life and work of artist Yayoi Kusama, yet veered away from a nuanced engagement with disability, madness/mental illness, and access. Desiring a crip version of the artist and psychiatric user/survivor, we take up…
Asynchronous Encounters
This essay engages with pandemic-era artistic practice, asking how digital technologies are being taken up out of desires and attempts to be intimate with, proximate to, ‘contemporary’ with one another. Drawing on theories of pandemic temporality and on media analysis approaches that highlight the digital’s materiality, affectivity, and self-reflexivity, we think with three first-person, visual-digital works composed, circulated, and archived dur…
Getting in, getting on, going further
Transitions from education into work, or as part of career change and development, are increasingly central to policy debate and academic inquiry. However, the role that employers play in shaping transition is often overlooked. In this paper, we examine this issue through the experiences of a graduating cohort of ‘degree apprentices’. We present original analysis of new empirical data from what we believe to be the first substantive qualitative l…
Ethnicity and UK graduate migration
This paper reports on the employment migration behavior of non‐White ethnic minority graduates in the United Kingdom for the 2018/2019 graduation cohort, which is the last cohort to enter the labor market before the COVID‐19 pandemic. Using data from the new Graduate Outcomes survey and controlling for a rich set of background characteristics, the findings indicate that ethnic minority graduates are more likely than their White counterparts to fi…
Mask Aesthetics
Affirming masks’ proven efficacy in preventing the airborne transmission of COVID-19, this paper seeks to understand face covering during the pandemic from a different but complementary angle: that is, as a deeply relational and thoroughly multimodal practice. Drawing on concepts of automediality, crip and feminist theories of affect and embodiment, biopolitics, and pandemic temporalities, I analyze artists’ mask-themed projects created during th…
Ethnic minority underachievement in UK higher education
This study evaluated the intersectionality thesis, which suggests that the interaction of ethnicity, sex, and socioeconomic status significantly affects achievement in UK higher education.The study used a sample of 135,699 students from the Graduate Outcomes survey for the 2018/19 cohort, the last to leave higher education before the COVID-19 pandemic.Conditioning on a rich set of background characteristics, results from a series of regressions i…
Field of study and the subjective labour market outcomes of UK graduates
Field choice in higher education has been shown to be highly influential on earnings and employment, yet little is known about how field of study affects recent graduates’ subjective labour market outcomes. This article uses ‘Graduate Voice’ data from the 2018/19 UK Graduate Outcomes survey to examine the effect of field choice on three subjective measures: whether work is meaningful, career is on track, and using graduate skills. Employing a sel…
Associate Editors in Conversation
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