About
Sara N. Beam (they/she), Ph.D., is an applied (teaching) professor of English who specializes in first-year writing, writing for the professions, disability justice, teaching with writing, institutional memory, indigenous studies, and place-based learning. Beam currently co-leads The PSIG Project — Identifying and Honoring the Students of the Presbyterian School for Indian Girls, the Indigenous Boarding School that became The University of Tulsa.
Awards and Honors
- Summer Faculty Training Institute Fellow with The University of Tulsa Institute of Trauma, Adversity, and iNjustice (TITAN) for development of Historical Trauma and Transformation (H2): A Place-Based Humanities Minor (Summer 2023)
- Oklahoma Center for Humanities Faculty Fellow (2022-2023)
- True Blue Neighbors Service Learning Teaching Fellowship (2019)
Education
- B.A., Hendrix College
- M.A., The University of Tulsa
- Ph.D., The University of Tulsa
Research interests and areas of expertise
- Rhetoric and composition
- Critical disability studies
- Personal narrative writing
- Composition pedagogy
- Writing program administration
- Writing for digital environments
- Indigenous boarding school history and education