-
Sarah Beckwith
-
Professor of English
-
Religion
-
109D Page
-
Campus Box 90680
-
Phone: (919) 660-3342, (919) 684-5538
-
Fax: (919) 684-8906
-
-
Specialties
-
Medieval Literature
-
Dramatic Literature
-
Renaissance/Early Modern Literature
-
Research Summary
Medieval Literature
-
Research Description
Sarah Beckwith works on late medieval
religious writing, medieval and early modern drama, and ordinary language philosophy. Her book,
Christ's Body: Identity, Religion and Society in
Medieval English Writing was published by
Routledge in 1993. Her book, Signifying God:
Social Relation and Symbolic Act in York's
Play of Corpus Christi was published by the
University of Chicago Press in the summer of
2001. Her book, Shakespeare and the Grammar of Forgiveness, will be published by Cornell University Press in April, 2011.
She is currently working on a book about Shakespearean tragedy and about philosophy's love affair with the genre of tragedy.
-
Areas of Interest
Medieval Literature & Culture
Early modern British Literature and Culture
Theatre History
Religious Studies
-
Education
-
- Ph.D.,
- English,
- King's College, London University,
- 1992
-
- B.A. with Honors,
- English Language and Literature (Class awarded: Congratulatory First),
- Oxford University,
- 1981
-
Awards, Honors and Distinctions
-
-
M.Abrams Fellowship,
-
National Humanities Center,
-
January 2013
-
-
Folger Institute,
-
-
January 2008
-
-
Nicholas Frehling Visting Fellowship,
-
Institute for the Humanities, Ann Arbor, U of Michigan,
-
for the winter term 2005
-
-
Phoenix Prize for JMEMS (most outstanding transformation),
-
CELJ,
-
January, 1998
-
-
Nominated for a teaching award,
-
-
January, 1997
-
-
Fellowship,
-
National Humanities Center, RTP, North Carolina,
-
1994-1995
-
-
British Academy Major State Studentship,
-
King's College, London University,
-
1982-85
-
-
Bousfield Scholarship,
-
Somerville College, Oxford,
-
1978-81
-
Selected Publications
-
- Signifying God: Social Relation and Symbolic Act in York's Play of Corpus Christi.
- U of Chicago P,
- 2001, Paperback ed. 2003.
-
- Christ's Body: Identity, Culture and Society in Late Medieval Writings.
- Routledge,
- 1996.
-
-
- with D. Aers, eds..
- "Sacrifice: Medieval and Early Modern."
- JMEMS, special issue
- 31
- .3
- (2001)
- .
-
- "The Cultural Work of Medieval Theatre: Ritual Practice in England 1350-1600."
- JMEMS, special issue
- 29
- .1
- (1999)
- .
-
- "Catholicism and Catholicity: Eucharistic Communities in Historical and Contemporary Perspectives."
- Modern Theology
- 15
- .2
- (Mar. 1999)
- .
- (based on conference being held at Duke, April 17-19, under auspices of the Homeland Foundation)
-
- "Stephen Greenblatt's Hamlet and the Forms of Oblivion."
- JMEMS
- (Jan. 2003)
- .
- (8000 words)
-
- "Absent Presences: Resurrection Theatre in York."
- Festschrift for Derek Pearsall.
- Ed. D. Aers, Woodbridge, Boydell and Brewer.
- 2000.
-
View All Publications
-
PhD Students
-
Jill Sirko,
-
George Vahamikos,
-
George T. Vahamikos
