Sara Potter is an associate professor of Spanish who specializes in in contemporary Mexican literature and gender studies. Her research and teaching interests include Mexican and Latin American poetry and avant-garde movements.

• Honorable mention for non-fiction multi-author volume - International Latino Book Awards (06/25/2022)
• Best Essay in the Humanities, Mexican Section - Mexican Section, Latin American Studies Association (LASA) (04/04/2020)
• Best PhD Dissertation Completed on Mexico in 2013 - Latin American Studies Association, Mexican Section (05/01/2014-05/31/2014)
• Modern Languages Association Travel Grant - Modern Languages Association (01/03/2013)
• Washington University Dissertation Fellowship - Washington University in Saint Louis (01/02/2013)
• Helen Fe Jones Award for Teaching Spanish - Spanish section, RLL Dept., Washington University (05/01/2011-05/31/2011)
• Fulbright-García Robles Fellowship, 2011-2012 - Fulbright Scholar Program, COMEXUS (04/18/2011)
• Latin American Studies Association Travel Grant - Latin American Studies Association (10/01/2010-10/31/2010)
• Washington University Teaching Assistantship and Fellowship - Washington University in Saint Louis (08/01/2006-08/31/2006)

• Ph D in contemporary Latin American literature, Washington University in Saint Louis (2013)
• MA in Spanish, Middlebury College (2000)
• BA in music, Spanish, Central Michigan University (1999)

• Other - Music and Culture of the Mexican Baroque: A Lecture Recital (04/11/2022). Contributing lecture at a lecture recital in collaboration with the departments of Music and Special Collections. Department of Music; Department of Special Collections. El Paso, Texas, USA. Sara Potter. Lindsey Macchiarella. Claudia Rivers.

• Technified Muses: Reconfiguring National Bodies in the Mexican Avant-Garde University Press of Florida (in press), Sara A. Potter.
• Review: Dalton, David S. Mestizo Modernity: Race, Technology, and the Body in Postrevolutionary Mexico. Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 55 1 (2021), Sara Potter.
• Review: García, Enrique. The Hernandez Brothers: Love, Rockets, and Alternative Comics. Chasqui: Revista de literatura latinoamericana 49 1 (2020), Sara Potter.
• Of Monsters and Malinches: Signifying Violence in Edgar Clément's Operación Bolívar and Tony Sandoval's Cadáver en el sofá" Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 53 1 (2019), Sara Potter.

• From Virtual (Ir)reality to a New Primero sueño: Affective Consequences of Virtual and “Real” Worlds in Eve Gil’s Virtus (2008). (2021), Volume virtual , Sara A. Potter.
• "'Houston, We Have a Big Fart': Lowbrow Humor and/as Social Critique in Rodolfo and Gabriel Rivas Palacio's "Marcianos vs. mexicanos"" (2020), Volume virtual--was originally to be in Guadalajara, Mexico, Sara Potter.
• “Un mundo (no tan) feliz: De/constructing Utopias in Eve Gil’s Virtus” (2020), Volume El Paso, TX, Sara Potter.

No info available.