Sarah Phillips Casteel

Sarah Phillips Casteel is Professor of English at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, where she is cross-appointed to the Institute of African Studies and the Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Culture. She is the author of three monographs: Black Lives Under Nazism: Making History Visible in Literature and Art (Columbia University Press, 2024), Calypso Jews: Jewishness in the Caribbean Literary Imagination (2016), and Second Arrivals: Landscape and Belonging in Contemporary Writing of the Americas (University of Virginia Press, 2007). She has also co-edited Caribbean Jewish Crossings: Literary History and Creative Practice (University of Virginia Press, 2019) and Canada and Its Americas: Transnational Navigations (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2010). She has held the Potsdam Postcolonial Chair for Global Modernities at the University of Potsdam as well as visiting fellowships at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Zentrum Jüdische Studien Berlin-Brandenburg. The recipient of a Canadian Jewish Literary Award and a Polanyi Prize, she is a member of the Academic Council of the Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern University.