Research Interests 

Mad studies, trans studies, critical disability studies, speculative fiction, critical/post/anti-psychiatry, critical digital humanities, science & technology studies, cripistemologies, poetics, trans/crip health politics, experimental humanities, critical neurodiversity studies, food/eating studies, posthumanism, multispecies justice.

Education

B.A. Critical Social Thought. Mount Holyoke College. 2020. 

Selected Academic Publications

• “Burrito Texts: Mel Baggs and the Language of Crip Life.” 2024. Review of Disability Studies.
• "port-man-toes: the aroace - queercrip - transmad - neuroqueer erotics of digital collaboration.” With ulysses/constance bougie. 2024. Kairos.
• “Loving Trans into Possible: t4t as Transpollinatory Praxis.” 2023. In APA Studies in LGBTQ Philosophy. 
• “Embodying Otherwise: Nonhuman Criptopias in Salt Fish Girl.” 2023. Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies.
• “The Queer Aut of Failure: Cripistemic Openings for Postgraduate Life.” 2022. Lateral: Journal of the Cultural Studies Association.
• “Toward transMad Epistemologies: A Working Text.” 2022. Spark: A 4C4Equality Journal.
• “Blogging to Counter Epistemic Injustice: Trans disabled digital micro-resistance.” with Alexandre Baril. 2021. Disability Studies Quarterly. 

Selected Literary Publications 

• “You May Feel Odd or Different All Day” in The Offing (forthcoming)
• “Loving Renee Back” in The Rumpus https://therumpus.net/2024/05/21/loving-renee-back/. 
• “dyke (genealogy)" in Canthius (honorable mention for the 2023 Priscilla Upper Memorial Award for Poetry) https://www.canthius.com/poetryandprose/2024/2/13/dyke-genealogy-alt-a-letter-to-my-grandfather-in-this-first-year-of-silence-by-sarah-cavar. 
• "Mad Studies” in khōréō https://www.khoreomag.com/fiction/mad-studies/. 
• “Have you seen my autism?” and “When I taste blood” in Electric Literature. https://electricliterature.com/two-poems-by-sarah-cavar-2/ 
• “The Beholding & Beheld: Madness and the Question of Care” in Nat. Brut. https://www.natbrut.com/sarah-cavar 
• “A complete family / hstry” in Honey Literary. https://www.honeyliterary.com/issue4/hybrid-a-complete-family-hstry-by-sarah-cavar. 
• “Late Summer Dispatch” in Princemere Poetry (winner of the 2021 Princemere Poetry Prize). http://www.princemere.com/contest21.html 

Books

• Failure to Comply (2024, featherproof books). Hybrid novel.
• bugbutter (2022, Gap Riot Press). Poetry Chapbook.
• Out of Mind & Into Body (2022, Ethel Press). Hybrid Chapbook.
• The Dream Journals (2021, giallo lit). Prose Chapbook.
• A Hole Walked In (2021, Sword & Kettle Press). Prose Chapbook.