Sarah McNamer

Sarah McNamer is Professor of English and Medieval Studies.

She is currently writing a book on the works of the Pearl Poet, also known as the Gawain Poet. Her primary interest is in the relation between literature and the history of emotion. Her book, Affective Meditation and the Invention of Medieval Compassion , received the 2010 Book of the Year award from the Conference on Christianity and Literature. Her critical edition, translation and study, Meditations on the Life of Christ: The Short Italian Text received the 2017 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Publication Award for a Manuscript in Italian Literary Studies. Courses she teaches at the undergraduate and graduate levels include Chaucer, Medieval European Literature, Critical Approaches to World Literature, and Premodern Worlds: A History through Literature and the Arts.

McNamer was a Rhodes Scholar at Merton College, Oxford. Other honors and awards include a Junior Fellowship at the Harvard Society of Fellows and research fellowships from the American Association of University Women, the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Australian Research Council's Centre for the History of Emotions. In 2018 she received the Distinguished Achievement in Research Award from Georgetown University.

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Academic Appointment(s)

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Professor, College - Department of English