Personal Website: www.sarahfaulkner.net

I am passionate about late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century British women writers. I'm currently researching national and historical novels, authorial personas and celebrity, and paratext. My dissertation, "Women in the Margins: Paratextual Authority in Romantic National Novels", explores how women writers utilized paratextual apparatuses such as footnotes, prefaces, portraits, epigraphs, and genre categories to define their personal authority over narratives traditionally dominated by men. I argue that reading paratext alongside the text reveals how women writers revise national and historical narratives to emphasize the importance of women in developing and sustaining a nation, each in their unique and deliberate way.

Other research interests include Romantic women's autobiographies, letters, manuscripts, and afterlives, along with Romantic celebrity culture and authorship networks. I'm interested in all women writers from this time, but have a special place in my heart for Jane Austen, Jane Porter, Sydney Owenson, Germaine de Staël, Frances Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Susan Ferrier, and Christian Isobel Johnstone. Though, after writing that list, I pine to include everyone else.

I am also deeply committed to my teaching, to public humanities and outreach, and to interdisciplinary community and collaboration. I teach 100- and 200-level courses for the English program such as "Harry Potter: The Magic of Writing" and "Jane Austen and Her World," and for the Robinson Center. I help coordinate the 18/19C Graduate Research Cluster,  am the Organizer of UW's Frankenreads event, and am also a NASSR Graduate Student Caucus Co-Chair. I am formerly the English Liaison to the UW in the High School Program, the Executive Officer of the Graduate Student Organization, and the Organizer of JaneFest 2017.

This year I am grateful to be a McGill-ASECS Fellow at the Burney Centre at McGill, a New York Public Library Short-Term Fellow, and a UW Chester Fritz International Research Fellow at the National Library of Scotland.