B.A. (Oxford), M.A. (Warburg Institute, London), Ph.D. (Yale)

Senior Lecturer in Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature

Contact Details:

• E: sk218@leicester.ac.uk

• T: +44 (0)116 252 2631

Research Interests

Sarah Knight's academic background is in Classics and English. Her main research and teaching interests are in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English and Latin literature, particularly texts written at or about early modern institutions of learning (schools, universities, Inns of Court). Her current work focuses on Renaissance students, representations of adolescence, poetic and rhetorical pedagogies, and academic drama and disputation.

Dr Knight has edited and translated several Latin works, including Leon Battista Alberti's prose satire Momus (1440s) and the accounts of Elizabeth I's visits to the University of Oxford in 1566 and 1592. Current publication projects include one edition/translation from Latin (Milton's Prolusions), two English editions (Fulke Greville's plays; the student play The New Moone, performed at the Venerable English College, Rome), and two co-edited books (The Oxford Handbook of Neo-Latin and The Brill Companion to Ramism). She continues to oversee the online publication of a teaching anthology of neo-Latin texts.

Dr Knight is President of the Society for Neo-Latin Studies, a member of the International Association of Neo-Latin Studies, and a founder member and Steering Committee member of the East Midlands Early Modern Colloquium. With Dr Sarah Graham (Leicester), she founded the 'Studies in Youth' network. She sits on the Board of Advisors for the journal Renaissance Studies and the Editorial Board for Literature Compass.

Projects

Current Postgraduate Supervision

Dr Knight welcomes applications and enquiries from prospective postgraduate students interested in Renaissance/early modern literature and culture, especially:

• drama and poetry
• schools, universities and Inns of Court
• Latin writing
• translation
• the reception of the classical tradition

Dr Knight has supervised several MA and PhD dissertations on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literature.

Teaching and Administration

• EN1010 Reading English
• EN1050 (Convenor) Renaissance Drama: Shakespeare and his Contemporaries
• EN2020 Renaissance Literature
• EN3148 Classical and post-classical Latin
• EN3151 (Convenor) Classical Worlds: Translation and Reception

MA: Dr. Knight teaches on several postgraduate modules on the MA in the Country House, MA in English Studies, and MA in Humanities.

Administration: Dr Knight is Chair of the School Learning and Teaching Committee, a member of the College Academic Committee, and a member of the University Working Party for Student Employability.

Recent and Forthcoming Publications

John Nichols's The Progresses and Public Processions of Queen Elizabeth I: A New Edition of the Early Modern Sources. General Editors: Jayne Elisabeth Archer, Elizabeth Clarke, Elizabeth Goldring; Associate General Editors: Faith Eales, Gabriel Heaton, Sarah Knight (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2013). 5 volumes. ISBN 9780199205066.

'Milton and the Idea of the University', in Young Milton: The Emerging Author, 1620-1642, ed. by Edward Jones (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012), pp. 135-156. ISBN 9780199698707.

'Juvenes Ornatissimi: The Student Writing of George Herbert and John Milton', in Neo-Latin Poetry in the British Isles, ed. by Luke Houghton and Gesine Manuwald (London: Bloomsbury Academic/Bristol Classical Press, 2012), pp. 51-68. ISBN 9781780930145.

'The Niniversity at the Bankside: Robert Greene's Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay', in The Oxford Handbook of Tudor Drama, ed. by Thomas Betteridge and Greg Walker (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012), pp. 355-370. ISBN 9780199566471.

'Milton's Forced Themes', Milton Quarterly 45 (3) (October 2011), pp. 145-160.

'Flat dichotomists and learned men: Ramism in Elizabethan drama and satire', in Ramus, Pedagogy and the Liberal Arts, ed. by Steven J. Reid and Emma Annette Wilson (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2011), pp. 47-68. ISBN 9780754667940.

The Intellectual and Cultural World of the Early Modern Inns of Court, edited by Jayne Elisabeth Archer, Elizabeth Golding and Sarah Knight (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2011). ISBN 9780719082368.

'Royal Milton', in The Times Literary Supplement (05/02/10), p. 15.

The Progresses, Pageants, and Entertainments of Queen Elizabeth I, ed. by Jayne Elisabeth Archer, Elizabeth Goldring, Sarah Knight (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007) (Long-listed for the William MB Berger Prize for British Art History). ISBN 9780199291571.

Leon Battista Alberti, Momus, trans. and co-ed. (I Tatti Renaissance Library No. 8) (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003). ISBN 0674007549.

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