Professor Dr. Sarah Kennedy

Biography

Sarah Kennedy is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of English at the University of Cambridge, where she is associated with Downing College. Her academic journey began with honors degrees in Political Science and English Literature, followed by a law degree from the University of Melbourne, Australia. She undertook doctoral studies at the University of Cambridge, completing her PhD in 2012. Kennedy held a Research Fellowship at Downing College from 2013 to 2017 and was a Visiting Fellow at Pomona College, California, in 2017. Her research encompasses a range of interests within twentieth-century and contemporary Anglophone poetry, focusing on aspects such as metaphor, narrative, and the ecological imagination. She has published significant works including 'T. S. Eliot Dynamic Imagination' and is currently developing her forthcoming book, 'Cambridge Guide Close Reading'. As a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in the UK, she has also been recognized as a finalist in the CUSU Student-Led Teaching Awards for her innovative teaching methods in graduate-level courses. Additionally, she has contributed numerous articles to peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes, addressing various aspects of modern poetry and its cultural implications.

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