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Dr Sara Lodge
Education and Experience
Sara Lodge received her BA(Hons) from Cambridge University and her DPhil from Oxford University, where she was a lecturer before coming to St Andrews. She has also worked as a speechwriter for the Secretary-General at the United Nations in New York. She continues to work as a political writer and journalist, and has taught widely on subjects including the nineteenth-century novel, poetry 1920-1950, and the relationship between nineteenth-century visual art and literature. Sara also teaches a course, unique in the UK, entitled: 'Speeches and Speechwriting: History, Theory, and Practice'. She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Research Interests
Sara specializes in nineteenth-century literature and culture. Among her other interests are comic writing, political rhetoric, the literary essay, and eco-criticism. With Dr Emma Sutton, she founded and runs the 'Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Research Network for Scotland and the North'. Her latest publications are Thomas Hood and Nineteenth-Century Poetry: Work, Play, and Politics (Manchester UP, 2007), and Jane Eyre: An Essential Guide to Criticism (Palgrave, 2008).
PhD Supervision
Elizabeth Andrews, Marina Cano Lopez, Jessica Volz
Contact information
Room: KH 301
Phone: 2641
sjl15@st-andrews.ac.uk
Consultation hours:
Fri 3-5
School role
Honours Adviser