Garth Sabo

sabogart@msu.edu

312 Linton Hall
479 West Circle Dr
East Lansing, MI 48824

FacultyIntegrated Arts and Humanities

Assistant Professor
Director, Integrative Studies in the Arts and Humanities

Center for Integrative Studies in the Arts and Humanities

Biography

Garth Sabo is an Assistant Professor in the Center for Integrative Studies in the Arts and Humanities (CISAH) at Michigan State University. He has taught literature, writing, and humanities courses at Kent State University, Jackson College, and MSU, where he completed his doctorate in American literature and waste studies. He currently teaches courses throughout MSU’s Integrated Arts and Humanities (IAH) curriculum on topics including climate fiction, graffiti, experimental art, infrastructure, the medical humanities, and the art and literature of the American Midwest. In addition to his classroom teaching, for which he received the Fintz Award for Teaching Excellence in the Arts and Humanities in 2020, Garth also participates in mentorship programs for graduate teaching assistants through CISAH’s Innovative Online Pedagogy and Curriculum program, as well as synchronous and asynchronous training for incoming IAH instructors.

Garth’s research focuses on literary and cultural depictions of waste, trash, and the human microbiome. His recent publications include essays published in Arizona Quarterly and Midwestern Miscellany, with a forthcoming article and editor’s note in CR: The New Centennial Review. He has also contributed book chapters on the global waste crisis and the new urban gothic, entanglements of trash and tackiness, and the literature of Y2K to various edited collections and is currently working on a monograph on ecocritical approaches to scatological literature titled Bowels of the Earth: Excrement in the Anthropocene.

University News

Garth Sabo Appointed Director of the Center for Integrative Studies in the Arts and Humanities
Published July 26, 2024 in College of Arts & Letters
Garth Sabo, Assistant Professor of Integrative Studies in the Arts and Humanities (IAH), was appointed Director of the Center for Integrative Studies in the Arts and Humanities (CISAH), effective…Read now »
Dr. J. Drew Lanham to Present Signature Lecture, ‘Birding While Black,’ on March 12
Published February 26, 2024 in College of Arts & Letters
The College of Arts & Letters is pleased to host MacArthur Fellow and acclaimed scholar, author, poet, and wildlife biologist Dr. J. Drew Lanham as part of the Signature Lecture Series. Lanham…Read now »
College Welcomes New Faculty and Staff Members
Published August 22, 2019 in College of Arts & Letters
Brown brick building with blue sky and clouds in the background and trees with changing fall leaves in front
This year, the College of Arts & Letters welcomes 28 new faculty and staff members. They include the following:  Sara Allison Sara Allison, Administrative Business…Read now »