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Dr Sarah Salih
Reader in English
Research interests
- Culture
- Literature
Biography
Research Interests and PhD Supervision
I research late medieval, especially 15th century, English literature and culture. I am interested in questions of sexuality, gender, subjectivity and devotional practice; the intersections of literary, visual and material culture; the contemporary medieval.
I am currently working on articles on race and gender in Middle English literature; on the Mandeville-persona in text, image and the material world; on Margery Kempe as performance artist and archivist; on Lydgate’s Mummings as Trojan re-enactment. I am planning a study of late medieval performance.
With Simon Trafford and Claire Pascolini-Campbell I am co-convenor of the Interdisciplinary Seminar on Medievalism and the 2020 Middle Ages in the Modern World conference. With Josh Davies I am helping to convene workshops on Architectural Narratives for the Temporal Communities network.
I have supervised or co-supervised 13 now completed PhDs and currently co-supervise a further 7. I would welcome applications for research supervision in any relevant topics of late medieval and contemporary medieval culture.
For more details, please see my full research profile.
Teaching
Postgraduate modules
- Arthurian Tradition
- Visual and Verbal in Medieval Culture
- Contemporary Medieval
- Premodern Dialogues
Undergraduate modules
- Writing London
- Medieval Literary Culture
- Performance in Medieval Culture
- Imagining Britain: Medieval Places, Journeys, Maps
Research
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Centre for Late Antique and Medieval Studies
Interdisciplinary centre for the study of late antique and medieval history, languages, philosophy, religion, literature and music in western and eastern Europe.
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presentPasts
Across the Faculty of Arts & Humanities, King’s academics study cultural interactions across time and the transhistorical traditions that often frame, foster, and shape them.
Research
![medieval england main](/newimages/main/medieval-england-main.x8b279bb3.jpg?crop=780,440,0,5&width=380&height=215&fit=crop&f=webp)
Centre for Late Antique and Medieval Studies
Interdisciplinary centre for the study of late antique and medieval history, languages, philosophy, religion, literature and music in western and eastern Europe.
![presentPasts](/newimages/researchproject/thumb-2021/presentpasts.xf593f0a6.png?width=380&height=215&fit=crop&f=webp)
presentPasts
Across the Faculty of Arts & Humanities, King’s academics study cultural interactions across time and the transhistorical traditions that often frame, foster, and shape them.