Sarah Sharp Author

Sarah Sharp is a lecturer in Scottish Literature at the University of Aberdeen and deputy director of Aberdeen’s Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies. She completed her doctoral studies at the University of Edinburgh and has previously held positions at the University of Otago and University College Dublin. She was selected for a Fulbright Scottish Studies Scholar Award in 2018 and was based at the University of South Carolina. Sarah's research is focused on Scottish literature and the long nineteenth century. She has published articles on James Hogg, shipboard diaries, Robert Burns, crime writing and settler colonialism.