Sarah Colvin
Sarah Colvin is the Schröder Professor at the University of Cambridge. Her research interests include literature and epistemic injustice; cultural production and social justice; the political novel; literature and authoritarianism; narrative theory and narrative ethics; and prisoner writing and arts in prisons. She leads the Cambridge-based research group Cultural Production and Social Justice with Dr Charlotte Woodford and Dr Tara Talwar Windsor and is the PI for the work of the Cambridge team in the CAPONEU consortium, which focuses on global epistemologies and the political novel in Europe.
Affiliation
University of Cambridge
Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Literatures
Books authored
- Literature and Epistemic Injustice. Power and Resistance in the Contemporary Novel (Routledge 2025)
- Shadowland: The Story of Germany Told by its Prisoners (Reaktion Books 2022). Podcasts: https://www.historyextra.com/period/20th-century/germanys-postwar-prisons-podcast-sarah-colvin/ and https://newbooksnetwork.com/shadowland
- Ulrike Meinhof and West German Terrorism: Language, Violence and Identity (Camden House, 2009). Podcast: https://www.baader-meinhof.com/podcast-2-sarah-colvin-interview/
- Women and German Drama: Playwrights and their Texts (Camden House 2003)
- The Rhetorical Feminine: Gender and Orient on the German Stage. Oxford: Clarenden 1999
Books/special issues of journals edited
- Sharon Dodua Otoo – Literature, Politics, Possibility. German Life and Letters special issue (2024) (ed. with Tara Talwar Windsor)
- Epistemic Injustice and Creative Agency. Perspectives on Global Literature and Film, ed. with Stephanie Galasso. London: Routledge 2023
- Women, Global Protest Movements and Political Agency: Rethinking the Legacy of 1968 [Vol 1], ed. with Katharina Karcher. London: Routledge 2019
- Gender, Emancipation, and Political Violence: Rethinking the Legacy of 1968 [Vol 2], ed. with Katharina Karcher. London: Routledge 2019
- The Routledge Handbook of German Politics and Culture. London 2015
- Narratives and Identities in the Berlin Republic, ed. with Isabelle Hertner, and Joanne Sayner. German Politics and Society Special Issue, Spring/Summer 2015
- The Feminine in German Culture, ed. with Charlotte Woodford. German Life and Letters Special Issue, October 2014
- Women and Death: Warlike Women in the German Literary and Cultural Imagination, ed. with Helen Watanabe-O’Kelly. Rochester, NY: Camden House 2009
- Masculinities in German Culture, ed. with Peter Davies. Edinburgh German Yearbook 2008
- Myths and Mythmaking, ed. with Laura Martin, Alison Phipps, Christl Reissenberger. German Life and Letters Special Issue 2004
Fellowships and memberships
- Mercator Fellowship, University of Greifswald, Germany (2026-29)
- International Advisory board for the Graduate School Normativity-Critique-Change, Free University Berlin (2023-25)
- Senior Prize Fellowship, Bayreuth Humboldt Centre, Germany (2020-21)
- Visiting Lecturership, Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology (2017)
- Leverhulme Research Fellowship (2007-8)
- Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship, University of Potsdam, Germany (2000-1)
- Peer Review College, Arts and Humanities Research Council, UK (2015-)
- Steering Committee, National Alliance for Arts in Criminal Justice, UK (2014-25)
- DFG/WR international expert advisory group for the Excellence Strategy, Germany: member for literary studies 2016-24
Contact
Jesus College
Cambridge
CB5 8BL
UK
Email: sjc269@cam.ac.uk
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