Sarah Allen

Sarah Allen is an Associate Professor in the English Department at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, where she serves as Associate Chair of the English Department. Her latest book project, Kairotic Inspiration: Imagining the Future in the Sixth Extinction (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022), offers a theory of inspiration that centers on intuitive connection instead of the creative genius of the individual human. Her first book, Beyond Argument: Essaying as a Practice of (Ex)Change, was published in 2015 with Parlor Press and WAC Clearinghouse.