Sarah Pollman is an interdisciplinary scholar and current PhD student in Communication Studies at Concordia University.

Sarah’s current research examines the durable phenomenon of the pathologization of dissociative experiences, the coproduction of illness between physician and patient, the role of visual culture in determining illness, and feminist resistances to the medicalization of trance and dissociative experiences by comparing photographs of women diagnosed as hysterical in fin-de-siècle America and contemporary women diagnosed with DID on social media. Drawing on theories of embodiment, feminism, and critical disability studies, the project traces the medicalization of non-normative behaviors to determine how technology and performance shape visual cultures of mental health experiences, both in the past and the present day.

Sarah holds a BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts @ Tufts University, and an MFA from Tufts University. Prior to relocating to Montréal, Sarah taught courses in art history, the humanities and the visual arts at Tufts University, Emerson College, Montserrat College of Art and New England College. In addition to traditional scholarly output, Sarah maintains curatorial and visual arts practices.

More at: www.sarahpollman.com