Sara Goodyear (née Suleri; June 12, 1953 – March 20, 2022)[1] was a Pakistan-born American author and professor of English at Yale University,[2] where her fields of study and teaching included Romantic and Victorian poetry and an interest in Edmund Burke.
[1] Suleri taught for two years at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, before she moved to Yale and began teaching there in 1983.
[6] Suleri's 1989 memoir, Meatless Days, is an exploration of the complex interweaving of national history and personal biography which was widely and respectfully reviewed.
The "unconventionality of some of her selections brings a breath of fresh air to a field prone to turn, time and again, to the same weary list of standard texts.
No doubt, she is a sensitive literary critic who would be bored with the kind of detailed monographs historians and ethnographic anthropologists do as a matter of course.
[18] Goodyear died of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease on March 20, 2022, at her home in Bellingham, Washington, at the age of 68.