Sara Polak
Universitair docent
- Naam
- Dr. S.A. Polak
- Telefoon
- +31 71 527 2142
- s.a.polak@hum.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0001-5003-5031

Sara Polak is universitair docent American Studies en Moderne Engelse Letterkunde bij het LUCAS (Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society). Ze is PI van het ERC Project Worlding America: How Play Shaped the United States from New Media to Politics, 1503-2028.
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Universitair docent
- Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen
- Centre for the Arts in Society
- Moderne Engelstalige letterkunde
- Polak S.A. (2021), FDR in American Memory: Roosevelt and the Making of an Icon. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
- 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. & Trottier D. (red.) (2020), Violence and Trolling on Social Media : History, Affect, and Effects of Online Vitriol. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
- 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. (2021), Nostalgie naar de New Deal: Terug naar Franklin D. Roosevelt, De Groene Amsterdammer 145(17): 30-33.
- 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(2): 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].
- 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) 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. & 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. (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.