Lecturer
- About
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- Email Address
- sarah.sharp@abdn.ac.uk
- School/Department
- School of Language, Literature, Music and Visual Culture
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.
Latest Publications
A club of “murder-fanciers”: Thomas De Quincey’s essays “On Murder” and consuming violence in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine
Nineteenth-Century Contexts, vol. 45, no. 5, pp. 445-462Contributions to Journals: ArticlesPeter's Letters to his Kinfolk. By John Gibson Lockhart. Edited by Peter Garside and Gillian Hughes. The Edinburgh Critical Edition of the Works of John Gibson Lockhart. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2023. ISBN 9781399500708 (hbk). 2 vols, 976pp. Hbk/ebook. £175.00.
Scottish Literary Review, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 73-75Contributions to Journals: Review articles- [ONLINE] https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/243/article/913680
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Introduction: Scotland, Culture and Empire
Journal of Irish and Scottish Studies, vol. 11, no. 1, 1Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.57132/jiss.210
Scotland, Culture and Empire
Journal of Irish and Scottish Studies, vol. 11, no. 1Contributions to Journals: Special Issues'Your vocation is marriage': Systematic colonisation, the marriage plot and finding home in Catherine Helen Spence's Clara Morison (1854)
Scottish Literary Review, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 27-45Contributions to Journals: Articles
- Research
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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, and settler colonialism.
Research Areas
Accepting PhDs
I am currently accepting PhDs in English.
Please get in touch if you would like to discuss your research ideas further.
Current Research
She is currently completing work on her first book which focuses on representations of death and national identity in the early nineteenth-century Scottish periodical press.
- Teaching
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Programmes
- Postgraduate, 3 semester, September start
Courses
- Publications
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A club of “murder-fanciers”: Thomas De Quincey’s essays “On Murder” and consuming violence in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine
Nineteenth-Century Contexts, vol. 45, no. 5, pp. 445-462Contributions to Journals: ArticlesPeter's Letters to his Kinfolk. By John Gibson Lockhart. Edited by Peter Garside and Gillian Hughes. The Edinburgh Critical Edition of the Works of John Gibson Lockhart. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2023. ISBN 9781399500708 (hbk). 2 vols, 976pp. Hbk/ebook. £175.00.
Scottish Literary Review, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 73-75Contributions to Journals: Review articles- [ONLINE] https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/243/article/913680
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
Introduction: Scotland, Culture and Empire
Journal of Irish and Scottish Studies, vol. 11, no. 1, 1Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.57132/jiss.210
Scotland, Culture and Empire
Journal of Irish and Scottish Studies, vol. 11, no. 1Contributions to Journals: Special Issues'Your vocation is marriage': Systematic colonisation, the marriage plot and finding home in Catherine Helen Spence's Clara Morison (1854)
Scottish Literary Review, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 27-45Contributions to Journals: ArticlesExporting 'the cotter's saturday night': Robert burns, scottish romantic nationalism and colonial settler identity
Romanticism, vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 81-89Contributions to Journals: ArticlesA place to mourn?: Emotion, genre, and child death in the Lady Egidia shipboard diaries
Victorians: A Journal of Culture and Literature, vol. 133, pp. 30-43Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vct.2018.0003
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
A Death in the Cottage: Spiritual and Economic Improvement in Romantic-Era Scottish Death Narratives
Cultures of Improvement in Scottish Romanticism, 1707–1840. Benchimol, A., McKeever, G. L. (eds.). Routledge, 20 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)Hogg's Murder of Ravens: Storytelling, Community and Posthumous Mutilation
Studies in Hogg and His WorldContributions to Journals: Articles