Sarah Ruth Wilson is a Phd candidate of American Studies at Penn State Harrisburg specializing in gender, race, & ethnicity and environmental history & thought. Currently, she works on ideas relating to the landscape idea in American cultural production: music, visual, and popular. She also writes on the history of women in higher education. Sarah holds a B.A. in art history from Wilson College and therefore continues work in American art, particularly landscape painting, the concept of the sublime and visual productions of the first half of the twentieth century. She enjoys a teaching assistantship at Penn State and strives to find balance in academic growth, research advancement, and cultivation in classroom experience. On the side, music – in many forms and genres – grabs her attention, so often she will make a “diversion” toward the indie scene, reviewing music and performances that capture the Americanist imagination.