Sarah Bufkin
My research sits at the intersection of antiracist political theory and Critical Theory, including that of the German Frankfurt School, French poststructuralism, and the British Birmingham School of Cultural Studies. I am currently working on a book project focused on Frantz Fanon's sociogenic method of antiracist critique. Drawing in part on my doctoral thesis, I argue that the failure to theorize 'race' has substantial consequences for continental political theory including but not limited to understanding the reproduction of racial injustice. I have also written on the politics of voice and visibility in the U.S. and Northern Ireland. More broadly, I am interested in feminist thought, social epistemology, and continental philosophies of self and Other.
- Postgraduate, Somerville College, Oxford (from 2015 to 2016)
- Postgraduate, The Queen’s University – Belfast (from 2014 to 2015)
- Undergraduate, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill (from 2009 to 2013)
- Critical Theory
- Cultural Studies
- Critical race theory
- Social epistemology
- Intersectional feminisms
- Hermeneutics and phenomenology
- Post-structuralism
Courses taught:
- Introduction to the Theory of Politics (Prelims)
- Theory of Politics
- Feminist Theory
- Critical Theory
- Political Thought from Bentham to Weber
- Marx and Marxism
- Rhodes Scholar (2015).
- Mitchell Scholar (2014).
- Morehead-Cain Scholar (from 2009 to 2013).