Sarah Waldner
Graduate Student, PhD
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Biography
Sarah Waldner is a PhD student in the Department of English Literature and Creative Writing. She holds an MA in English from Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø and an Honours BA in English from Trent University, where she specialized in Literary History. Her research focuses on guilt and shame in the Romantic period, with special interest in the Godwin-Shelley family and Thomas De Quincey.
Research Interests
Romanticism; Gothic Literature; Affect Theory; Postsecularism; Creative Writing
Awards and Recognition
Ontario Graduate Scholarship (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø's University, 2026-7)
Alfred Bader Graduate Fellowship in the Humanities (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø's University, 2025-6)
P.K. Page-Irwin Poetry Prize (Trent University, 2023)