Sarah Henstra

Sarah M. Henstra (born November 2, 1972 ) is a Canadian literary scholar and novelist.

Life

Sarah Henstra studied English at McMaster University and wrote her master's thesis on contemporary British author Jeanette Winterson at the University of Western Ontario in 1998 . She received her doctorate in 2002 with the dissertation Writing at a loss: nation and nuclearism in the twentieth-century English novel at the University of Toronto .

Henstra is an Associate Professor of English Literature and Creative Writing at Ryerson University in Toronto .

In 2015 she published the novel Mad Miss Mimic , which is aimed at young adults. Her novel The Red Word , published in 2018, received the Governor General's Award for Fiction for English-language works that same year .

Works (selection)

• Writing at a loss: nation and nuclearism in the twentieth-century English novel . Ottawa: National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2003 ISBN 9780612746473
• The McReal thing: personal / national identity in Julian Barnes's England, England . In: Nick Bentley (Ed.): British fiction of the 1990s . London: Routledge, 2005 ISBN 0-415-34256-2 , pp. 95-106
• The counter-memorial impulse in twentieth-century English fiction . Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009 ISBN 978-0-230-57714-5
• Mad Miss Mimic . Toronto: Razorbill, 2017
• We contain multitudes . New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2019
• The Red Word . Toronto: Tramp, 2019

Web links

• Literature by and about Sarah Henstra in the WorldCat bibliographic database
• Sarah Henstra , at Ryerson University