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Professor of Russian & Comp Lit University of California, Santa Barbara

Sara Pankenier Weld

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A Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara , Sara Pankenier Weld researches childhood across national and interdisciplinary boundaries, particularly in literature, art, film, and theory and in Slavic, Scandinavian, and North American contexts. Her work, which is moving in increasingly global and comparative directions, seeks to challenge discriminatory attitudes toward children in scholarship, society, and culture. She also increasingly advocates for children and the humanities and foreign languages in public opinion pieces. She has taught at UC Santa Barbara since 2012. She lives in Santa Barbara with her family, including her three children. In her free time she enjoys traveling, the outdoors, and the Channel Islands.

Research

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Sara Pankenier Weld specializes in childhood in literature, culture, and theory; Russian/Slavic literature, Scandinavian literature, North American literature, comparative literature, and world literature; avant-garde literature, art, and theory; literatures of the north; Indigeneity and childhood; word and image; childhood studies, children’s literature, and picturebooks. Her comparative and interdisciplinary interests are wide-ranging, but oftentimes childhood, infancy, and the infantile figure centrally within her research, whether this interest takes her scholarship into literature, culture, history, art, film, or theory; transnational literature of the 18th-21st century, modernism, and the avant-garde; or children's literature, picturebooks, and childhood studies.

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education

Sara earned her Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literatures and a Ph.D. Minor in Comparative Literature and Scandinavian at Stanford University in 2006. She received a B.A. in Comparative Literature and a Minor in Russian Literature at Dartmouth College in 1998. She studied abroad at St. Petersburg State University and Moscow State University. She has been a guest researcher in Russia, Sweden, Finland, Germany, and England, including sabbatical research leaves spent at Stockholm University in 2018-2019 and as a Visiting Fellow at the University of Cambridge in 2025.

Professor of Russian & Comp Lit University of California, Santa Barbara

Professor of Russian & Comp Lit University of California, Santa Barbara

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