Sarah joined the English Department at KCL as a Lecturer in Shakespeare and Early Modern Literature in September 2013. Prior to that she was an AHRC post-doctoral researcher, working on the Shakespeare400 quatercentenary project. After being awarded her doctoral thesis in 2012 and before joining King’s, she was a Teaching Fellow in Early Modern Literature at University College Dublin. She has also taught as a visiting lecturer at Shakespeare’s Globe, Roehampton University and at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.
Sarah has co-edited a collection of essays, Family Politics in Early Modern Literature (Palgrave, 2017), and her monograph, Time and Gender on the Shakespearean Stage (CUP, 2020) argues that looking at time through the lens of gender, and gender through the lens of time, is crucial if we are to develop our understanding of the early modern cultural and performative construction of both.
Sarah is currently a co-director of the research network, Grasping Kairos, a group of scholars working across disciplines, geographies and time periods to further our understanding of the cultural, political, literary, artistic, philosophical, theological and historical construction of the opportune moment. She is particularly interested in the tension between moment and duration on the early modern stage. Sarah is a co-convener of the London Shakespeare Seminar (2020-21), and she also led a project with The British Library and Shakespeare’s Globe to produce a MOOC, Shakespeare: Print and Performance, which has now reached 18,000+ learners from 120+ countries around the world.