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Sara Humphreys completed her BA-Honours at Nipissing University (a small university located in North Bay, Ontario) as a mature student. She then took a leap of faith and completed her MA in English at the University of Toronto. A rhetorician at the University of Toronto, the late Dr. Michael Dixon, suggested Sara pursue a PhD at the University of Waterloo with a focus on rhetoric. She ended up with a speciality in Discourse and Text Analysis and a healthy dose of Rhetoric.

Her primary area of interest lies within the fields of Rhetorical Genre Studies, Media and Game Studies, Composition, Rhetoric, and  Canadian Writing Studies, particularly in terms of how genres can function to accommodate, affect, oppress, and even liberate different audiences and negotiate multiple traditions of communication in varied social contexts. In 2024, she led a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Knowledge Synthesis Grant (KSG) titled Writing & Power: Policies and Position Statements for Social Change. In January 2025, . Sara published a book on game studies with University of Nebraska Press titled  (2021). While Game and Media Studies and Rhetoric and Composition/Writing Studies might seem antithetical, rhetoric and genre underpin every act of communication and cultural expression. She currently serves on Senate (2023-2026) and on the Canadian Association of Discourse and Writing Studies executive committee (2024-2026). She is active in the Faculty Association at the University of Victoria in several capacities. Teaching, research, and service are interconnected: each one informs the other to create and disseminate knowledge. 

At the undergraduate and graduate levels, she teaches with the aim to open doors for students who might otherwise face barriers to reaching their academic goals. She encourages students to see composition and rhetoric(s) from the perspective of their own communities, narratives, knowledges, and histories. Sara firmly believes in the power of composition and rhetoric to give students agency by understanding how their realities are forged via language. Sara hopes her students leave her courses with a sense of their responsibilities as scholars, writers, and thinkers in the publics and communities they occupy.