Sarah Heidt joined Kenyon's faculty in 2004. She specializes in nineteenth-century British literature and culture, auto/biography and life writing, women's writing, textual studies (especially histories and theories of print culture and authorship), and film. In her teaching and research, she concerns herself broadly with how people understand and experience selves and memories, particularly as they create and consume literary, photographic, and cinematic texts. Heidt is currently working on two book projects. Composite Beings: Making Victorian Selves explores the composition, publication, and reception of a group of nineteenth-century autobiographies; portions of this research have appeared in Victorian Studies and Nineteenth-Century Contexts. A second project, Reel Lives: Autobiography and Memoir on Screen, examines the increasingly prominent phenomenon of memoirs' and autobiographies' being adapted to film. In 2007-08, under the auspices of the Whiting Teaching Fellowship, Heidt held a Visiting Fellowship at Clare Hall (University of Cambridge), of which she is now a Life Member. Particularly fond of George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Virginia Woolf, and the Oxford English Dictionary, Heidt is rarely happier than when reading a book or investigating the world through her camera.

Heidt is currently serving as the Resident Director of the Kenyon-Exeter Program at the University of Exeter.

Education

Ph.D. Cornell University
M.A. Cornell University
B.A. Kenyon College (English and Classics)

Selected Publications

"'The Materials for a "Life'": Collaboration, Publication, and the Carlyles' Afterlives." Nineteenth-Century Contexts 28.1 (March 2006): 21-33.

"'Let JAS Words Stand': Publishing John Addington Symonds' Desires." Victorian Studies 46.1 (Autumn 2003): 7-31.

Courses Taught

English 103/104 Moments, Memories, Mementos
English 210 Proper Ladies and Women Writers
English 211 Selves, Lives, and Stories
English 354 Page, Stage, Screen: The Nineteenth-Century Novel Transformed
English 356 Victorian Poetry and Poetics
English 357 Victorian World
English 359 Writing and Ruling: Literatures of Empire
English 413 Panoramic Novel
English 453 George Eliot