Sarah M. Duncan is a neurodivergent queer cis white femme living on unceded Pawtucket and Massa-adchu-es-et land.
She is committed to student advocacy, (dis)ability justice, and ending violence against people with mental illness.
As a pop culture scholar, her research centers on the popularity and significance of the “time-loop” plot in 21st Century film and television. She started her research when she completed a masters program in American Studies at UMass Boston (2020). Her thesis "This Feels Like Groundhog Day: Stuckness and the Cultural Work of 21st Century Televisual Time-Loop Plots," won the Michael Lenz Award for Nontraditional and Innovative Scholarship. When she isn’t thinking about temporal politics, Duncan analyzes representations of disability in film and television, such as in her recent essay on the OCD-Coding of Chidi Anagonye in NBC’s The Good Place.
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She is committed to student advocacy, (dis)ability justice, and ending violence against people with mental illness.
As a pop culture scholar, her research centers on the popularity and significance of the “time-loop” plot in 21st Century film and television. She started her research when she completed a masters program in American Studies at UMass Boston (2020). Her thesis "This Feels Like Groundhog Day: Stuckness and the Cultural Work of 21st Century Televisual Time-Loop Plots," won the Michael Lenz Award for Nontraditional and Innovative Scholarship. When she isn’t thinking about temporal politics, Duncan analyzes representations of disability in film and television, such as in her recent essay on the OCD-Coding of Chidi Anagonye in NBC’s The Good Place.
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