Dr Sarah Salih

Research Interests and PhD Supervision

I research late medieval, especially 15^th 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