Sarah Pett

Biography

Dr Sarah Pett is a graduate of Cambridge and the university currently known as Rhodes, where she was a Leverhulme Study Abroad Scholar. She completed her PhD at York in 2014, under the supervision of Professor Derek Attridge, during which time she also held the position of visiting researcher at the University of Cape Town as part of the World Universities Network Researcher Mobility scheme. Her research interests focus on modern and contemporary Anglophone literature, the medical humanities, and South African studies. She has published on the fiction of Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker, and Achmat Dangor, and on Virginia Woolf's groundbreaking essay "On Being Ill" (forthcoming), and is currently in the process of completing her first monograph, Invalid Texts: Illness and Contemporary Literature.Along with colleagues at Liverpool and York, she also co-edited a special issue of open-access journal Postcolonial Text, entitled "The Parapostcolonial: Interdisciplinary Perspectives and New Approaches."

Research Interest

English Literature