Dr Sarah Sharp

Biography

Sarah Sharp completed her doctoral studies at the University of Edinburgh in 2016. She has held positions as a Leverhulme Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Otago, working within the Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies, and an Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at University College Dublin. She was selected for a Fulbright Scottish Studies Scholar Award in 2018 and was based at the University of South Carolina.  She joined the University of Aberdeen in 2019 as a Lecturer in Scottish Literature working between the Department of English and the Research Institute for Irish and Scottish Studies where she is a Deputy Director. 

External Memberships

Sarah is the secretary of the Universities Committee for Scottish Literature.

Research Overview

Sarah's research is focused on Scottish Literature and the Long Nineteenth Century. She has published articles on James Hogg, shipboard diaries, Robert Burns, crime fiction and settler colonialism. Her first book Kirkyard Romanticism: Death, Modernity and Scottish Literature in the Nineteenth Century will be published by Edinburgh University Press in September 2024. 

Current Research

Sarah is an editor of the Routledge Companion to Scottish Literature and is co-editing a volume in the Edinburgh Edition of Walter Scott's Poetry.

Her latest research considers ideas of 'Cottage Scottishness' in the context of Empire. 

Funding and Grants

Sarah has previously held personal fellowships from the Wolfson Foundation, the Carnegie Trust, the Leverhulme Trust, the Fulbright Commission, and the Irish Research Council. She has been part of funded projects supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the Royal Society of Edinburgh.