Dr. Sarah Colvin

Biography

Sarah Colvin is the Schröder Professor of German at the University of Cambridge and a Gender Equality Champion. She has a robust academic background, having studied German language and literature at the Universities of Oxford and Hamburg. Her career includes positions as a Junior Research Fellow at St John's College, Oxford, and Lecturing as well as Reading at the University of Edinburgh. She has also served as a Humboldt Fellow at Potsdam University. Colvin has chaired several academic positions at prominent universities including Edinburgh, Birmingham, and Warwick before her appointment at Cambridge in 2014. She leads a research group working on a project focused on the Cartography of the Political Novel in Europe, funded by the EU and UKRI. Her primary research and teaching interests encompass literature, epistemic injustice, cultural production and social justice, political novels, authoritarianism in literature, narrative theory, narrative ethics, and the role of arts in prisons. Colvin actively supervises potential MPhil and PhD students.

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