Sara A. Misgen is a PhD candidate in Religious Studies at Yale, and the Coordinator for the McDougal Teaching Fellows team. As an educational developer, she is committed to helping instructors design and implement inclusive, equitable, and accessible lesson plans, assessments, and courses. Sara is particularly interested in Universal Design for Learning, collaborative learning, and maximizing student agency. At Yale, Sara has taught courses in the English Department and Humanities program as an instructor of record, and has been a Teaching Fellow in Yale College and at Yale Divinity School.

Her dissertation research focuses on how late ancient Christians in the Latin West used the bodies of the damned as rhetorical tolls for thinking through issues of divine theodicy. She holds a BA from Bethel University and an MAR from Yale Divinity School.