Sarah Krive
Sarah Krive is Senior Lecturer in Liberal and Professional Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. An award-winning teacher, recognized scholar, and experienced academic administrator, she brings more than two decades of experience teaching literature, language, and interdisciplinary humanities, alongside a long record of academic leadership and program development.
Dr. Krive holds a Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literatures from the University of Chicago and is currently completing a Master of Social Work at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (expected 2026), with a direct practice concentration. Her scholarly and pedagogical interests include Russian literature and culture—particularly the history and politics of emotion, the life and afterlife of Anna Akhmatova, and poetry as ethical and social witness—as well as memoir, narrative ethics, contemplative pedagogy, and the role of the arts in health and healing.
At UNCG, Dr. Krive has developed and taught a wide range of transdisciplinary courses that bridge the humanities, wellness, and social engagement, including Know Slow: Countering the Culture of Acceleration, Narrative Ethics, Literature, Empathy, and Healing, Contemporary Memoir, and Write for Your Life! She has also taught extensively in Russian language, literature, and culture at all levels, including courses on Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Russian literary film adaptation, folklore, and cultural mythologies of St. Petersburg. Her teaching is grounded in close reading, reflective practice, experiential learning, and an emphasis on empathy, critical thinking, and intercultural understanding.
In addition to her teaching, Dr. Krive has served in a variety of leadership roles at UNCG, including Associate Dean of the Lloyd International Honors College, Co-Director of the Center for Creative Writing in the Arts, Associate Editor of International Poetry Review, and Program Advisor and Chair of the National Fellowships Committee. She has also held visiting faculty appointments at New York University and the University of Utah and was an independent scholar supported by a National Endowment for the Humanities grant.
Fluent in Russian and shaped by extended study and work in Russia and abroad, Dr. Krive brings a globally informed, culturally responsive perspective to both her teaching and her clinical training. As a therapist-in-training aspiring to licensure as a Clinical Social Worker, she has gained experience in integrated healthcare settings and is particularly interested in trauma-informed care, mindfulness-based approaches, narrative and meaning-centered work, and whole-person, relational models of healing.
Across her academic, administrative, and clinical work, Dr. Krive is committed to creating spaces—classrooms, communities, and therapeutic settings—that foster reflection, resilience, ethical engagement, and meaningful transformation.