Sarah Haughn received her PhD in Performance Studies with designated emphases in Studies in Practice and Performance and African and African American Studies. Her research considers how processes of birth and gestation as grappled with in the literature of Black writers elucidate the violence operative in western metaphysics’ recurrent use of gestational language to explain being. Scholarly interests include critical black studies, philosophy of antagonism, gender theory, science and technology studies, and poetics. She has taught writing-focused courses across African American Studies, English, Sociology, and Drama. And she is currently finishing a poetry manuscript.