Sarah E. Kersh

Areas of Research

• Writing Pedagogy
• Feminist and Queer Theory
• Poetics and the Visual Arts
• 19th-Century Literature
• Digital Humanities

DH Projects

•  The Poems of Michael Field
  • A DH project involving the poetry of the 19th-century poet Michael Field
• The Diaries of Michael Field
  • transcription project for the journals of Michael Field; transcriptions for parts of the 1904 and 1914 volumes
• Victorian Queer Archive
  • previous collaboration with Joanna Swafford, Independent Scholar (previously at Tufts University)

Publications

• “Queer Temporality in Victorian Love and Marriage Poems” with Pearl Chaozon Bauer. Nineteenth-Century Contexts, 44.2 (2022).
• “‘Betwixt us Two’: Whym Chow, Metonymy, and the Amatory Sonnet Tradition.” In Michael Field,  Decadent Moderns. Edited by Sarah Parker and Ana Parejo Vadillo, Ohio University Press, 2019.
• “From Distracted to Recursive Reading: Facilitating Knowledge Transfer through Annotation Software” with Chelsea Skalak. Distracted Reading: Acts of Attention in the Age of the Internet, special issue of Digital Humanities Quarterly, edited by Marion Thain, 12.2 (2018).
• Review of The Victorian Verse-Novel: Aspiring to Life, by Stefanie Markovits. Nineteenth-Century Contexts, 40.4 (2018).
• “The Victorian Family in Queer Time: Secrets, Sisters, and Lovers in The Woman in White and Fingersmith;” with Lauren N. Hoffer in Queer Victorian Families: Curious Relations in Literature edited by Duc Dau and Shale Preston; Routledge, 2015.  
• Instructor’s Manual. Writing Analytically, 8^th ed. With Jill Stephen and David Rosenwasser. Boston: Cengage Learning, 2018.
• Instructor’s Manual for Writing Analytically with Readings, 3rd ed. with David Rosenwasser and Jill Stephen. Cengage, 2015.
• “Writing Assignments” in A Guide to Teaching First-Year Composition: Strategies for Promoting Student Success in the Writing Classroom. Cengage, 2014.
• “A Reflection on the Work of Yale Professor Sam See (1979-2013)” in Reviews & Responses; UNIversitas: The University of Northern Iowa Journal of Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity; volume 9, 2014.