Professor Dr. Sarah Houghton Walker

Biography

Sarah Houghton-Walker studied at St John's College, Cambridge, subsequently holding a Research Fellowship in 2007 and becoming a Fellow at Gonville Caius College. She serves as the Co-Director of the Centre for John Clare Studies at the English Faculty. Her primary research focuses on Romantic-period poetry, particularly the works of John Clare and the 'gypsies' during the Romantic era, alongside William Wordsworth. Current research interests include the weather in Romantic-period literature, as well as the interplay between specificity and generality in natural history poetry of the long eighteenth century, as well as the Pauline idea of the 'gift' in Wordsworth's writings. Sarah Houghton-Walker also supervises graduate students in aspects of eighteenth-century and Romantic-period literature and culture, with a special focus on authors such as William Wordsworth, John Clare, and Jane Austen.

Research Interests