Articles and Edited Book Chapters

Sara's work has been moving ever further back in time in Russian contexts and in new comparative directions in Slavic, North American, and Scandinavian contexts. 

Recent publications include two articles in new areas: “‘A Precocious Little Mother with a Child’s Face’: A Maternal Ethics of Care in Martha Sandwall-Bergström’s Kulla-Gulla Books." in Barnboken (2024)  and "Survival, Sustenance, and Self-Sufficiency: Taking a Plant-Based Perspective in Jean Hegland's Into the Forest" in a special issue of Ecozona: European Journal of Literature, Culture, and the Environment (2024).  Sara earlier published an article entitled "Sámi Selves in the Northern Landscape: Nomadism and Indigeneity in Swedish Classics for Children" in Barnelitterært forskningstidsskrift (2020).

A book chapter on transnational aspects of Catherine the Great's writings for children was published in Transnational Books for Children, 1750-1900 (John Benjamins, 2023), while a chapter on childhood and temporality in Svetlana Alexieviech's Chernobyl Prayer appeared in Historical and Cultural Transformations of Russian Childhood: Myths and Realities (Routledge, 2023).

Other recent book chapters include “The Production of the Man-Machine: The Child as Instrument of Futurity” in the award-winning Pedagogy of Images (Toronto University Press, 2021) and “The Child’s-Eye View of War in Ivan’s Childhood" in ReFocus: The Films of Andrei Tarkovsky (University of Edinburgh Press, 2021). 

Overall she has published numerous articles or chapters on a variety of Russian and East European historical figures like Catherine the Great; filmmakers Andrei Tarkovsky and Sergei Eisenstein; writers Svetlana Alexievich, Leo Tolstoy, Maxim Gorky, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Marina Tsvetaeva, Osip Mandelstam, Daniil Kharms, Samuil Marshak, and Vladimir Nabokov; and artists Vladimir Lebedev and Mikhail Tsekhanovsky. She has also written on Scandinavian topics and Indigeneity in a Scandinavian context and about the writers Selma Lagerlöf, Laura Fitinghoff, and Martha Sandwall-Bergström. Her articles have appeared in the journals Slavic Review, Slavic and East European Journal, and Russian Language Journal, as well as in foreign publications like Scando-Slavica, Tidskrift för litteraturvetenskap, Detskie chteniia, Nedslag i børnelitteraturforskningen, Barnelitterært forskningstidsskrift, Barnboken, Antropologicheskii forum, International Research in Children's Literature, and Ecozona, in English, Danish, Russian, and Swedish.