I have been teaching at UAF since 1995, first as a TA, then as an adjunct lecturer, and most recently as the interim Director of Composition. Before UAF I studied at Penn State and University of Cincinnati. I attended my last two years of high school in Madison, Wisconsin; before that I lived in Tübingen, in southern Germany, and Adlikon, a small town near Zürich in Switzerland.  I enjoy teaching literature, culture and writing.

My teaching includes German language and culture, ESL, composition, teaching college composition, teaching English in middle and high school, American literature, world literature, and non-fiction writing. I harbor a special passion for all things nineteenth century, which I work into every syllabus I can.

Currently I am writing my dissertation, which is an interdisciplinary study of the life and archival holdings of Margaret Keenan Harrais (1872-1964), an educator, activist, and judge. Merging methods from literary biography, creative non-fiction, ethnography, and anthropological life histories, my intention is to situate Harrais’ work within the rhetorical strategies of club-women, as well as to critique the uses and misuses to which archival materials are put. But beyond that, hers is a fascinating story.

I live on a hill with my husband (assistant professor in Alaska Native and Rural Development at UAF), our two elementary school sons and their plethora of imaginary companions, and a prolific bunch of guppies.
 

Director of Composition

Phone: (907) 474-7335

Email: sarahfatman@yahoo.com

Office: Gruening 812