Sarah J. Adams completed her PhD thesis on antislavery theater in 2020. Her current postdoctoral project "Blackface Burlesques," funded by the FWO, explores the modes, scenarios, tropes, and techniques used to design “blackness” on the comic Dutch stage and investigates the different functions of these modes of representation before the heyday of minstrel culture. Since 2016, Sarah is co-editor and editorial secretary of the yearbook of the Dutch-Belgian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (Amsterdam University Press), and she is a member of the research groups and networks such as THALIA, GEMS, CECTON, HRRN, and CEL19.
