Sarah Ross
Born1974 (age 4950)
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Oxford
ThesisWomen and religious verse in English manuscript culture c1600–1688 : Lady Anne Southwell, Lady Hester Pulter and Katherine Austen (2000)
Doctoral advisorNigel Scott Smith
Academic work
InstitutionsVictoria University of Wellington

Sarah Catherine Elizabeth Ross (born 1974) is a New Zealand academic, and is a full professor in the School of English, Film, Theatre, Media and Communication, and Art History at Victoria University of Wellington. Ross is a scholar of Renaissance literature, particularly women's complaint poetry.

Academic career

Ross completed a Bachelor of Arts with Honours at the University of Canterbury, before earning an MSt and completing a DPhil titled Women and religious verse in English manuscript culture c1600–1688: Lady Anne Southwell, Lady Hester Pulter and Katherine Austen at the University of Oxford, under the supervision of Nigel Smith.[1][2] Ross then joined the faculty of Massey University, moving to Victoria University of Wellington in 2013 and rising to full professor in 2023.[3]

Ross was awarded a Marsden Fast-Start Grant in 2006, and was the principal investigator on a full grant in 2016 for work on the engagement of Renaissance women in the "powerful and ubiquitous" rhetorical model of complaint.[3][4] As part of this project, and with further funding from the Australian Research Council, she and collaborators Rosalind Smith (Australian National University) and Michelle O'Callaghan (University of Reading) produced an online index to early modern women's complaint poetry.[5] This allowed the researchers to investigate the types of complaints women wrote, for example whether they were amatory, religious, or "complaints against the times", alongside the form of the complaint, for instance, lyric poem, song or sonnet.[6]

Awards and honours

Ross was awarded a University Research Excellence Award in 2019.[3] The Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender awarded Ross the Best Teaching Edition for her 2017 edited book Women Poets of the English Civil War.[3]

Selected works

References

  1. "Library catalogue record for thesis". Bodleian Library. Retrieved 15 November 2023.
  2. Ross, Sarah C. E. (2000). Women and religious verse in English manuscript culture c1600-1688 : Lady Anne Southwell, Lady Hester Pulter and Katherine Austen (DPhil thesis). University of Oxford.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Victoria University of Wellington (7 February 2023). "Promotion to Professor 2022 | News | Victoria University of Wellington". www.wgtn.ac.nz. Retrieved 15 November 2023.
  4. "Search Marsden awards 2008–2017". Royal Society Te Apārangi. Retrieved 15 November 2023.
  5. "Complaint Poetry". cems.anu.edu.au. Retrieved 15 November 2023.
  6. "Complaint Poetry: Discoveries". cems.anu.edu.au. Retrieved 15 November 2023.
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