Sarah Hayden

Sarah Hayden is Associate Lecturer in Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths College, University of London and also teaches part-time in English and Women's Studies at University College Cork, Ireland. She is currently completing her first monograph, Curious Disciplines: Mina Loy and Avant-Garde Artisthood, for publication by University of New Mexico Press. Recent publications include essays and articles on Francis Picabia, Djuna Barnes and Mina Loy, as well as reviews of contemporary art and poetry. In 2012 she was DAAD Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Degenerate Art of the Freie Universität in Berlin and in 2013, IRC Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of English, UCC. Her poetry has appeared in various magazines in the UK, US & Europe and as the chapbooks Exteroceptive (Wild Honey Press) and System Without Issue (Oystercatcher) and she is a co-organizer of the SoundEye and Avant festivals in Cork. Her next book project will analyze the figure of the virgin in transatlantic modernist literature and visual art.