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Professor

Sarah Ross

Head of School

School of English, Film, Theatre, Media and Communication, and Art History

  • Head of School
    School of English, Film, Theatre, Media and Communication, and Art History
  • +6444636806 (Work)
  • VZ 810, Von Zedlitz Building, 26 / 28 Kelburn Parade, Wellington, 6012, New Zealand

BIO

Professor Ross works on early modern literature, gender, poetry, and manuscript and print culture in the early modern Anglophone world.

She is currently completing a Marsden and ARC-funded project on early modern women's complaint poetry, working with Professor Rosalind Smith (ANU) and Professor Michelle O'Callaghan (University of Reading), with a book forthcoming on Early Modern Women and the Poetry of Complaint.

Early Modern Women's Complaint: Gender, Form, and Politics is available now, as is the online, open-access Early Modern Women's Complaint Poetry Index: cems.anu.edu.au/complaintindex/

She has recently edited the Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Women's Writing in English, 1540-1700 (2022), with Professor Danielle Clarke (UCD) and Dr Elizabeth Scott-Baumann (King's College, London).

She was also part of the team that created Beyond the Book: A Digital Journey through the Treasures of the Emmerson Collection, launched at State Library Victoria in August 2023: https://beyondthebook.slv.vic.gov.au/

With Rosalind Smith, she edits the journal Parergon, the journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies: https://parergon.org

DEGREES

  • BA (Hons)
    University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
  • MSt (Distinction)
    University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
  • DPhil
    University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

AVAILABILITY

  • Masters Research or PhD student supervision

FIELDS OF RESEARCH