Sarah Klein

Sarah’s research centers on how methods travel across time and space.

Her current research is on experimental practice in cognitive science. She brings together approaches from Communication, Science Studies, and Performance Studies to describe how experiments are designed, performed, and understood by their subjects and researchers. She takes an ethnographic and ethnomethodological approach to everyday practice and multi-modal interaction. Her work on experimental practice bridges art and science by treating experiments as performances with material, embodied, situated, and aesthetic features indivisible from their empirical structure, and by collaboratively designing experiments/performances with scientists.    

Recent work

Klein, Sarah and Marghetis, Tyler. (December 2017). Shaping Experiment: Performance Collaboration in the Cognitive Science Lab, Performance Matters 3(2)

Klein, Sarah. Don’t Blink: Performing Experimental Time in the EEG Laboratory. (2014). Performance Research, 19(3), 88-92.

Courses taught 

• SPCOM 193 Communication in the Sciences
• SPCOM/THEPERF 102 Introduction to Performance
• SPCOM/THEPERF 220 Performance Studies
• SPCOM 490 (Special Topics) - Ethnography of the Ordinary
• SPCOM 401 Advanced Studies in Gender and Sexuality