Sara Matthews Associate Professor in the Department of Global Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University. Her interdisciplinary work brings aesthetics and cultural theory to the study of violence and the dynamics of social conflict. Her current project, “The Cultural Life of Drones”, explores social responses to technologies of military surveillance and mechanized killing such as drone warfare. With regard to her teaching, Sara is interested in pedagogical approaches that respond to the challenges and possibilities of teaching and learning from representations of war and social conflict. In 2013, she was the recipient of the Faculty of Arts Teaching Scholar Award.