Sarah M. Corse is associate professor of sociology at the University of Virginia. She has a B.A. in Sociology from Yale and received her M.A. and Ph.D. in Sociology from Stanford. Dr. Corse's interests lie in the multiple ways that cultural expressions, such as books, paintings, or Chinese opera, acquire meaning and value. Her work has asked, for example, about the relationship between literature and the political process of nation-building, the involvement of particular narratives in the identity politics of race and gender, and the adaptation of Biblical stories for children. Dr. Corse's recent work has also looked at culture and cultural skills more broadly, investigating how classed and gendered cultural logics underlie processes such as social mobility and sexual assault. Cambridge University Press published Dr. Corse's Nationalism and Literature: The Politics of Culture in Canada and the United States in 1997. Dr. Corse has published in journals including Social Forces, Poetics, Feminist Theory, and American Journal of Cultural Sociology.
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The Arts in Society
