Meredith Sauer holds an MA in Digital Humanities from Loyola University Chicago. Her research interests include the relationship between modernist and postcolonial literature, literature and the environment, computational textual analysis, and digital and multimodal writing. Her digital capstone project, Collages of the Environment in Caribbean Literature: A Hypertextual Experiment in Close Reading, used an interactive, hypertext essay form to explore representations of the environment in several 20th century works of Caribbean literature.

While at Loyola, Meredith also conducted research on LLM use in scientific writing for the Department of Computer Science. She also served as Digital Systems Assistant for the University Libraries, administering Loyola’s open access institutional repository for faculty and student scholarship.

Prior to her graduate studies, Meredith received a BA in English Literature with a minor in Spanish from Kenyon College. Her undergraduate honors thesis was titled The Choreography of Modernism: Lawrence, Woolf, and Representations of Dance in the Novel. In a past life, she worked as a proposal writer for disaster management consulting services and legal services.

Meredith can be reached at msauer3@luc.edu.