Sarah received her B.A. from Girton College, Cambridge in 1996 and her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2003. Before joining the English department, she held postdoctoral fellowships at The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, the Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies at UCLA, and the University of Chicago. Sarah is currently completing a book about the role of wonder in eighteenth-century fiction, and is also at work on a project that considers figures of flotation and suspension—aesthetic, cognitive, scientific, and economic—in the long eighteenth century. Her teaching and research interests include the history and theory of the novel; Enlightenment philosophy; and the relationship between literature and science and between realism and the marvelous during the long eighteenth century. Her essay, “Forging Figures of Invention in Eighteenth-Century Britain,” is forthcoming in The Age of Projects (University of Toronto Press, 2008) edited by Maximillian E. Novak.

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