Sarah Mesle (PhD, Northwestern) is a professor, writer, and editor based in Los Angeles, California. She is faculty at USC, the former Senior Humanities Editor of the Los Angeles Review of Books, founding co-editor of the LARB channel Avidly and the NYU short book series Avidly Reads. Prior to arriving at USC, she held post-doctoral fellowships in English at the University of Michigan and the University of California, Los Angeles.
Mesle’s many essays about writing, literature, gender, television, and more have appeared in venues such as The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Talking Points Memo, Guernica, InStyle magazine, andThe New York Times Magazine. She is a nineteenth-century Americanist by training and is interested, generally speaking, in the long strange history of the American novel and in the many ways popular culture can excite, estrange, and surprise. At USC, Mesle teaches a range of courses in the Writing Program. She grew up in rural Iowa.
She is represented by Tanya McKinnon at McKinnon Literary.
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Sarah Mesle 