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Dr Sarah Sharp

Lecturer in Scottish Literature

Email

ses42@st-andrews.ac.uk

Office

Room 201

Location

Kennedy Hall

 

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.  After six years as a Lecturer in Scottish Literature and the Deputy Director of the Research Institute for Irish and Scottish Studies at Aberdeen, she joined the University of St ÌÇÐÄlogo in 2026.

Research areas

Sarah's research focus is on Scottish Literature of the long nineteenth century with a particular emphasis on Scotland's global connections. 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 was published by Edinburgh University Press in September 2024. 

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. 

Selected publications

• Sharp, S., 1 Mar 2025, In: Burns Chronicle. 134, 1, p. 3-24

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Sharp, S., Sept 2024, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 208 p. (Edinburgh critical studies in romanticism)

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• Open access
  Sharp, S., 1 Dec 2023, In: Nineteenth-Century Contexts. 45, 5, p. 445-462

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access
  Sharp, S., Apr 2019, In: Romanticism. 25, 1, p. 81-89 9 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Sharp, S., Mar 2019, In: Scottish Literary Review. 11, 1, p. 27-45 19 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Sharp, S., 17 Apr 2018, Cultures of Improvement in Scottish Romanticism, 1707–1840. Routledge, p. 213-232

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Sharp, S., 1 Jun 2018, In: Victorians. 133, p. 30-43 14 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Sharp, S., 1 Oct 2013, In: Studies in Hogg and his World. 23

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review