Dr. Sarah Wood

Biography

Sarah Wood is a Reader in Middle English Literature at the University of Warwick. She completed her undergraduate degree in English Language and Literature at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, and went on to earn an M.St. and a D.Phil. in medieval literature. She has taught at University College London and joined the English department at the University of Warwick in 2014 after serving as a research fellow at the Huntington Library in California from 2013 to 2014. Her research interests focus extensively on William Langland's 'Piers Plowman' and its transmission. Her notable works include the book 'Conscience Composition Piers Plowman', published by Oxford University Press in 2012, and the monograph 'Piers Plowman Manuscript Tradition', released in 2022 by Boydell Brewer as part of the York Manuscript Early Print Studies series. Wood's current research projects delve into war literature, particularly the Middle English alliterative poem 'Siege of Jerusalem'. She is an active member of research groups such as Manuscript Print Cultures and Poetry Warwick, and welcomes inquiries from students interested in Middle English literature, especially Piers Plowman and religious literature.

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