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Sarah Lancaster is a PhD researcher and PGTA at the University of Nottingham, and the recipient of an AHRC studentship through Midlands4Cities. Her research focuses on late medieval devotional texts from Yorkshire, exploring the relationship between didactic literature and subjective experience. She studied for her undergraduate degree at the University of Oxford, and completed the University of Nottingham's distance-learning MA in Applied English whilst living in Bucharest and Ljubljana. She is a fully qualified teacher, and has eight years of experience across UK and international schools.
Expertise Summary
Sarah's work explores relationships between devotional writing and human subjectivity. It will be the first investigation of late medieval subjectivity with a regional emphasis, utilising a sharp focus on one literary milieu to provide a multi-dimensional exploration of cognitive, affective, somatic and situated forms of subjective experience. Core textual foci include The Northern Homily Cycle, the Northern version of God's Own Complaint extant in the 'Heege' manuscript, the Desert of Religion and the Towneley Plays.
Teaching Summary
Sarah is an experienced teacher, with an interest in restorative practice and student-led learning. Her research focuses on the relationships between didacticism and subjectivity, considering the… read more
Research Summary
This thesis explores relationships between devotional writing and human subjectivity. It will be the first investigation of late medieval subjectivity with a regional emphasis, utilising a sharp… read more
Sarah is an experienced teacher, with an interest in restorative practice and student-led learning. Her research focuses on the relationships between didacticism and subjectivity, considering the ways in which pedagogic materials incorporate the experiences and prior knowledge of audiences.
Current Research
This thesis explores relationships between devotional writing and human subjectivity. It will be the first investigation of late medieval subjectivity with a regional emphasis, utilising a sharp focus on one literary milieu to provide a multi-dimensional exploration of cognitive, affective, somatic and situated forms of subjective experience. Core textual foci include The Northern Homily Cycle, the Northern version of God's Own Complaint extant in the 'Heege' manuscript, the Desert of Religion and the Towneley Plays.