
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

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.
Research

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.