Sara Polak
Universitair docent
- Naam
- Dr. S.A. Polak
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- +31 71 527 2142
- s.a.polak@hum.leidenuniv.nl
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- 0000-0001-5003-5031
Sara Polak is universitair docent aan het Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society.
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- Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen
- Centre for the Arts in Society
- Moderne Engelstalige letterkunde
- Polak S.A. (2025), Donald Trump’s Viral Narratives and Shifting Pandemic Communication: A Search for Playful Affordances (2014–2021). In: Butler M., Farzin S., Fuchs M. & Hempel F. (red.), Coming to Terms with a Crisis: Cultural Engagements with COVID-19. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag. 221-235.
- Polak S.A. (2024), Donald Trump and Truth Social: Media Platforms Making Exclusionary Worlds. In: Olson G. & Kreitler M (red.), Diversity Issues in the USA: Transnational Perspectives on the 2024 Presidential Elections. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag. 137-147.
- Polak S.A. & Stroband S. (2023), The notorious RBG: The discursive power of celebrity in defense of the supreme court: an analysis of On the Basis of Sex, RBG, and My Own Words, Journal of Popular Culture 56(3-4): 635-647.
- Van den Heede P.J.B.J. & Polak S.A. (2023), Historical events as ‘Magic Yarn Balls’: towards productive engagements with historical analogies, Journal of Applied History 5(1): 47-74.
- Polak S.A. (18 april 2023), Opinie: ‘Fetanylgebruik moet aangepakt, maar het frame is racistisch’. Het Parool.
- Polak S.A. & Zwetsloot A.J.A. (2022), “And then I see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in a minute”: Donald Trump as patient zero and superspreader of Covid-19 cartoon logic, European Journal of English Studies 26(3): 377-398.
- Polak S.A. (10 november 2022), Witte angst voedt spookverhalen over verkiezingsfraude. Het Financieele Dagblad.
- Polak S.A. (2022), Bespreking van: Baumgartner J.C. & Becker A.B. (2018), Political humor in a changing media landscape: a new generation of research. Lanham/Boulder/New York/London: Lexington Books. HUMOR: International Journal of Humor Research 35(4): 707-710.
- Hiltrop M. & Polak S.A. (2022), George Saunders’ Lincoln in the Bardo: semiotic explorations of Abraham Lincoln in American cultural memory, Rethinking History 26(4): 551-568.
- Polak S.A. (2022), Het complot als spel dat de speler bespeelt, Leidschrift 37(juni): 49-63.
- Polak S.A. (3 januari 2022), “My button is bigger & more powerful than his”: Prosumer culture in social media humour. Humour in the European Public Sphere. Krakow: UNA Europa. [blog].
- Becker S., Bruin-Molé M. de & Polak S.A. (red.) (2021), Embodying Contagion : The Viropolitics of Horror and Desire in Contemporary Discourse. Cardiff: University of Wales Press.
- Polak S.A. (2021), Nostalgie naar de New Deal: Terug naar Franklin D. Roosevelt, De Groene Amsterdammer 145(17): 30-33.
- Dam H.D.J. van & Polak S.A. (2021), Owning Gilead: franchising feminism through Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and The Testaments, European Journal of English Studies 25(2): 172-189.
- Ieven B.K., Polak S.A. & Buelens G. 6 november 2021, Over politiek spelen. Leest Spreekt. Platform Leest [podcast].
- Polak S.A. (2021), FDR in American Memory: Roosevelt and the Making of an Icon. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
- Polak S.A. (2021) De geboorte van Big Data: een ‘macroscoop’ voor de VS in de jaren zestig. Bespreking van: Lepore J. (2020), If Then - How One Data Company Invented the Future: WW Norton & co.. De Nederlandse Boekengids .
- Polak S.A. (2021), Voor je het weet doe je eraan mee, TH en MA 28(3): 42.
- Polak S.A. (27 augustus 2021), Voor Amerika doet Afghanistan er niet meer toe. Het Financieele Dagblad, Opinie: 25.
- Polak S.A. (2021), Franklin D. Roosevelt as an Architect of Public History. In: Zwiers M. & Olthof J. (red.), Profiles in Power: Personality, Persona, and the U.S. President. Leiden, Boston: Brill Publishing. 81-95.
- Anli Z., Volkmar A., Cardozo de Souza A.P., Feuth A.G.B.M., Hui T., Majid B., Seale L.R., Shobeiri S.A., Vergeer T. & Polak S.A. (red.) (2020), Landscape in Perspective: Projections and Transformations. Journal LUCAS Graduate Conference. Leiden: Leiden University Library.
- Polak S.A. (2020), Eleanor Roosevelt’s autofabrication as gendered premediation of a female presidency. In: Fazzi D. & Luscombe A. (red.), Eleanor Roosevelt's views on diplomacy and democracy: the global citizen. The World of the Roosevelts. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. 171-192.
- Polak S.A. & Trottier D. (red.) (2020), Violence and Trolling on Social Media : History, Affect, and Effects of Online Vitriol. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
- Polak S.A. & De Vroey B. (4 november 2020), Terzake: Presidentsverkiezingen in de Verenigde Staten. Geïnterviewd door Kathleen Cools for Terzake(VRT1/CANVAS) [interview].
- Kleiter C., Riedinger M., Mosseri E., Fischer D., Vergeer T., Hendrikx S.M., Oudshoorn M.A., Guan Z., Hiskes A.R., Jansen L.M., Muitjens G., Nakamura J.P., Tissen L.N.M. & Polak S.A. (red.) (2020), Animals (Un)tamed: Human-Animal Encounters in Science, Art, and Literature. Journal LUCAS Graduate Conference. Leiden.
- Bertens L.M.F. & Polak S.A. (2019), Using museum audio guides in the construction of prosthetic memory, Journal of Conservation and Museum Studies 17(1): 1-12.
- Polak S.A. (2018), Posting the Presidency: Cartoon Politics in a Social Media Landscape, Media and Arts Law Review 22(4): 403-419.
- Polak S.A. (2017), “And with all she lived with casual unawareness of her value to civilization” : Close-reading Eleanor Roosevelt's Autofabrication, European Journal of American Studies 12(1): .
- Polak S.A., overdemuur.org, platform voor historische vernieuwing. [webartikel].
- Polak S.A. (10 november 2017), Gewalt im Netz: Frauen sind Zielscheibe von Hass.
- Polak S.A. (2017), Ebola in the American Imagination: Contagious Metaphors and Narratives on Twitter, : 22-25.
- Polak S.A., Blog posts (7 to date) for Over de Muur (overdemuur.org) platform voor historische vernieuwing. [blog].
- Polak S.A. (2017), Since 2016: 35 newspaper analyses of American politics, history, culture (600-1200 words each) in Leidsch Dagblad, Noord-Hollands Dagblad, Gooi- en Eemlander and other regional papers.
- Polak S.A. (12 november 2016), 18 columns and 2 longer analytical articles in Leidsch Dagblad (Noord-Hollands Dagblad, Gooi- en Eemlander et al.) about the US elections 2016 (30/7/2016-12/11/2016). Leidsch Dagblad.
- Bleijenberg L., Bodde O.C., Janzen J.P.C., Glickman S., Knegtel F., Korte H., Louwrier D. & Polak S.A. (red.) (2015), Journal of the LUCAS Graduate Conference. Journal LUCAS Graduate Conference.
- Polak S.A. (2015), President in een rolstoel, Geschiedenis Magazine (1): 52-55.
- Polak S.A. (2015), President in een rolstoel, Geschiedenis Magazine 2015(January): 52-55.
- Polak S.A. (10 april 2015), The Presidential Juggler: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Rhetorical Flexibility, and Autofabrication. U.S. Studies Online: British Association for American Studies. [blog].
- Polak S.A. (8 december 2015), "This is Roosevelt's World" - FDR as a Cultural Icon in American Memory (Dissertatie. Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS), Humanities, Leiden University). Promotor(en): Liegbregts P.T.M.G. & Korsten F.W.A.
- Polak S.A. (2015) Review of The Last Campaign: How Presidents Rewrite History, Run for Posterity & Enshrine Their Legacies by Anthony Clark. Bespreking van: Clark A., The Last Campaign: How Presidents Rewrite History, Run for Posterity & Enshrine Their Legacies. Public Historian 37(3): 142-144.
- Polak S.A. (2014), Prosthetic Memories of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Infantile Paralysis as Narrative Embodiments for Traumatic American War Memory. In: Mihaelescu D., Oltean R. & Precup M. (red.), Mapping Generations of Traumatic Memory in American Narratives. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholar Publishing. 265-284.
- Polak S.A. (2014), "Does My Cock Still Work?" Franklin D. Roosevelt's Prosthetic Masculinity in FDR American Badass!, The Mid-Atlantic Almanack 23(2014): 59-74.
- Knevel P., Polak S.A. & Tilstra S. (2011), Meerstemmig verleden, Persoonlijke verhalen over het Nederlandse slavernijverleden. Amsterdam: KIT Publishers.
- Janssens R.V.A. & Polak S.A. (2010), Tussen High Noon en Black Hawk Down: Amerikaanse cultuur en de rol van de krijgsmacht. In: , De Verenigde Staten in 2020: toekomstplanning van een hegemon. Den Haag: Ministerie van Defensie. 52-86.
- Polak S.A. (2010), Roosevelt in zijn eigen museum: waarom Franklin D. Roosevelt als authentiek ervaren wordt. In: , Tweede Levens, Over personen en personages in de geschiedschrijving en de literatuur. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. 124-135.
- Polak S.A. & Akkermans A. (2009), Onverwachte ontmoetingen in de Pijp. Amsterdam: Stichting KleurRijk Verleden.
- Polak S.A. & Knevel P. (2009), Lang leve het herinneren, het belang van levensverhalen, Biografie Bulletin najaar: .
- Polak S.A. (2006), Emily Dickinson's Epistolary Immortality, Emily Dickinson International Society Bulletin 18(2): 4-7.