https://www.sarahbethkennedy.com/home daily 1.0 2026-01-08 https://www.sarahbethkennedy.com/about daily 0.75 2026-01-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e52f223c48d4d288744f60b/50992c87-2fc6-4c75-980c-b17969a14f05/IMG_6893.jpg About - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.sarahbethkennedy.com/contact daily 0.75 2025-04-14 https://www.sarahbethkennedy.com/dissertation daily 0.75 2023-11-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e52f223c48d4d288744f60b/1582665210830-ZXM0LYSIUC09U8Y6L95X/2018-10-17_14-56-29_003.jpeg Dissertation - Sarah Kennedy’s dissertation project takes up the case study of Sleepy Hollow, NY, where Washington Irving’s 1819 short story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” is the basis for a Halloween season and growing year-round tourism industry. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e52f223c48d4d288744f60b/1582665272901-NWIRR5ELEW0S7S46YAWG/2019-10-14_19-17-14_745.jpg Dissertation - Combining rhetorical analysis, ethnographic fieldwork, and affect theory literature, Sarah is developing the concept of uncanny tourism as a practical placemaking strategy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e52f223c48d4d288744f60b/1582663721686-7GSHQ8EXY82504AKSNH2/2018-10-17_14-59-56_685.jpeg Dissertation - Research questions include: How does the uncanny manifest in literary works and tourism to their settings? How does a tourist site’s literary heritage contribute to its affective co-creation as a persuasive landscape? How do tourists interact bodily with the spaces they inhabit? How can we understand place itself as a persuasive actor in touristic exchanges? How can placemakers at tourist sites meaningfully utilize the uncanny affect already present at places associated with death?