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Sarah Prescott | |
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| Born | 1968 (age 56–57) |
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| Education | University of York University of Exeter |
| Thesis | Feminist Literary History and British Women Novelists of the 1720s (1997) |
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| Discipline | English literature |
| Sub-discipline | Welsh literature in English |
| Institutions | University of Aberystwyth University College Dublin University of Edinburgh |
| Main interests | Welsh writing in English,women's poetry,Welsh women writers |
Sarah Helen Prescott FLSW (born February 1968) is a British academic specializing in the history of Welsh literature in English. [1] [2] Since 2022,she has served as Vice-Principal and Head of the College of Arts,Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Edinburgh.
Prescott was born in February 1968. [3] After earning a B.A. at the University of York,Prescott continued her studies at the University of Exeter,where she received a PhD in 1997 with a thesis titled Feminist Literary History and British Women Novelists of the 1720s. [1] [4]
From the mid-1990s,she taught at Aberystwyth University,where she also conducted research into women's poetry,Welsh writing in English,and women's writing in Wales. In addition to two books on 18th-century female writers,she contributed to journals including Modern Philology , Huntington Library Quarterly , Eighteenth-Century Studies and Notes and Queries . She served on the editorial board of Literature Compass. She was a member of the Institute for Medieval and Early Modern Studies,covering work in the English Departments of Aberystwyth and the University of Wales,Bangor. [2] She also collaborated with Professor Jane Aaron of the University of Glamorgan on the third volume of the Oxford Literary History of Wales, which covers "Welsh Writing in English,1536–1914". [5]
From 2013,she was Principal Investigator for a three-year project funded by the Leverhulme Trust on "Women’s Poetry 1400-1800 from Ireland,Scotland and Wales in Irish,English,Scots,Scottish Gaelic,and Welsh",in collaboration with Aberystwyth University's Welsh and Celtic Studies Department,the University of Edinburgh and the National University of Ireland,Galway. [6] [7] She was elected a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales in 2016. [8]
At the University of Aberystwyth,Prescott was also Director of the Institute of Literature,Languages and the Creative Arts (ILLCA),which includes the Aberystwyth Arts Centre. [9]
In 2016,she was appointed Principal of the College of Arts and Humanities at University College Dublin. [10] In 2022,she was appointed Vice-Principal and Head of the College of Arts,Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Edinburgh. [11]
In 2013,Prescott was awarded the M. Wynn Thomas Prize for her essay "Archipelagic Coterie Space:Katherine Philips and Welsh Women’s Writing". [12]
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