Dr. Sarah Anderson

Biography

Sarah M. Anderson received her Ph.D. in Medieval Studies from Cornell University. She is a member of the English Department Council at Princeton University and specializes in early medieval language and literature, particularly Old English, Old Norse, and Old Icelandic, with strong secondary interests in textual criticism and Middle English literature, including Arthuriana. During her tenure at Princeton, Anderson was a research fellow at the Arnamagnæan Institute at the University of Copenhagen, where she studied and edited Old Icelandic sagas and worked on the Dictionary of Old Norse Prose. She has previously investigated early printed editions of sagas from Iceland, Sweden, and Denmark, contextualizing these editions within national identity debates. Her publications include "Cold Counsel: Women in Old Norse Literature and Mythology" (Routledge, 2002) and the introduction, notes, and glossary for the "Beowulf: Longman’s Cultural Edition" (January, 2004). At Princeton's English Department, she has taught courses in Old English, Middle English Romance, and Arthurian Literature, as well as interdisciplinary approaches to Western culture from antiquity to the Middle Ages (HUM 216-217). Currently, she is developing new courses on early heroic literature and pilgrimage.

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