Sarah Catherine Elizabeth Ross (born 1974) is a New Zealand academic, and is a full professor in the School of English, Film, Theatre, Media and Communication, and Art History at
Victoria University of Wellington. Ross is a scholar of Renaissance literature, particularly women's complaint poetry.
Academic career
Ross completed a Bachelor of Arts with Honours at the
University of Canterbury
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, before earning an
MSt
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and completing a
DPhil titled ''Women and religious verse in English manuscript culture c1600–1688: Lady Anne Southwell, Lady Hester Pulter and Katherine Austen'' at the
University of Oxford, under the supervision of
Nigel Smith. Ross then joined the faculty of Massey University, moving to Victoria University of Wellington in 2013 and rising to full professor in 2023.
Ross was awarded a
Marsden Fast-Start Grant in 2006, and was the principal investigator on a full grant in 2016 for work on the engagement of
Renaissance women in the "powerful and ubiquitous" rhetorical model of complaint.
As part of this project, and with further funding from the Australian Research Council, she and collaborators Rosalind Smith (
Australian National University) and Michelle O'Callaghan (
University of Reading) produced an online index to early modern women's complaint poetry. This allowed the researchers to investigate the types of complaints women wrote, for example whether they were amatory, religious, or "complaints against the times", alongside the form of the complaint, for instance, lyric poem, song or sonnet.
Awards and honours
Ross was awarded a University Research Excellence Award in 2019.
The Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender awarded Ross the Best Teaching Edition for her 2017 edited book ''Women Poets of the English Civil War''.
Selected works
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References
External links
Early Modern Women’s Complaint Poetry an index to Scottish and English women's complaint poetry
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1974 births
Living people
New Zealand academics
New Zealand women academics
Scholars of English literature
Academic staff of Victoria University of Wellington
University of Canterbury alumni
Alumni of the University of Oxford