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, 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 engage with literary, photographic, and cinematic texts. She has published portions of her research into Victorian and contemporary life writings in Victorian Studies , Nineteenth-Century Contexts , and Adaptation . In 2007-08, under the auspices of the Whiting Teaching Fellowship, Heidt held a Visiting Fellowship at Clare Hall (University of Cambridge), where she is now a Life Member. Having won the junior Trustee Teaching Excellence Award in 2010, she has focused her most recent research explicitly on holistic and integrative approaches to college-level teaching and learning. She spent spring 2013 as the Lenz Residential Fellow in Buddhist Studies and American Culture and Values at Naropa University in Boulder, CO, developing a contemplative pedagogy for literary studies. Particularly fond of George Eliot, Virginia Woolf, Master Hongzhi, Henry David Thoreau, A.R. Ammons, Toni Morrison, and the OED , Heidt is rarely happier than when immersed in a book, hiking up big hills, investigating the world through her camera, or sitting in silence.

In 2011-12, Heidt was the Resident Director of the Kenyon-Exeter Program at the University of Exeter, a position she will take up again for the 2013-14 academic year.

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