Sara Osenton
Associate Professor, Learning Specialist
- She/Her
- sosenton@ecuad.ca
Education:
University of Toronto
University of Toronto
ECU
UBC
Bio
Sara Osenton uses innovative research-based creative connections to build academic abilities. She is an award-winning instructor and writer. She holds a PhD and MA from the University of Toronto where her research examined the complex expressions of the memory of war and trauma in contemporary Japanese art with a focus on the cyborg. She also holds a BFA from ECU in Visual Studies and Ceramics, and a BA from UBC in Asian Studies and Japanese. She has taught undergraduate courses in Japanese and East Asian history, art history, pop culture, visual culture, film, Japanese language and graduate thesis writing.
Research Interests
Sara's interests include Japanese art, cyborgs, veterans, war disability, reading, writing, art as pedagogy, World War II, the Second Sino-Japanese War and kawaii.