Jesus College ÃÜÌÒÊÓƵ CB5 8BL United Kingdom
Sarah Colvin studied German language and literature at the Universities of Oxford and Hamburg. She was a Junior Research Fellow at St John’s College, Oxford, a Lecturer and Reader at the University of Edinburgh, a Humboldt Fellow at Potsdam University, and held chairs at the universities of Edinburgh, Birmingham, and Warwick before becoming Schröder Professor of German at ÃÜÌÒÊÓƵ in 2014. Sarah leads the research group Cultural Production and Social Justice with Dr Charlotte Woodford and , and is the ÃÜÌÒÊÓƵ PI for the EU- and UKRI-funded project Cartography of the Political Novel in Europe ().
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Her primary research and teaching interests are in the areas of literature and epistemic injustice; cultural production and social justice; the political novel; literature and authoritarianism; narrative theory and narrative ethics; prisoner writing and arts in prisons.
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She welcomes inquiries from potential MPhil and PhD students.
Books:
Literature and Epistemic Injustice. Power and Resistance in the Contemporary Novel. London and New York: Routledge 2025 (open access)
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Shadowland: The Story of Germany Told by its Prisoners. London: Reaktion Books 2022 (Podcasts: and )
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Ulrike Meinhof and West German Terrorism: Language, Violence and Identity. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2009 (Podcast: )
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Women and German Drama: Playwrights and their Texts. Rochester, NY: Camden House 2003
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The Rhetorical Feminine: Gender and Orient on the German Stage. Oxford: Clarenden 1999 Ìý
Recent articles:
. German Life and Letters 77 (2024) special issue: Sharon Dodua Otoo: Literature, Politics, Possibility, 68-85
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‘Narrative Pilgrimage and Chiastic Justice in Olivia Wenzel’s 1000 Serpentinen Angst and Sharon Dodua Otoo’s Adas Raum’, in Sarah Colvin and Stephanie Galasso (eds), . New York: Routledge 2023, 176-97
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Daphnis 50 (2022), 666-92
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‘. German Studies Review 45/1 (2022), 81-103
. German Life and Letters 75 (2022), 138-65
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. German Life and Letters 74 (2021), 511-56
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. German Life and Letters 73 (2020), 659-679
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‘"The credibility of elves": narrative exclusion and prison writing’, in Kelly, M. and Westall, C. (eds), .ÌýLondon: Routledge 2020, 21-38.
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(with Sveinung Sandberg)Ìý‘’. British Journal of Criminology 60 (2020), 1585–1605
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(with Daniela Pisoiu) Colvin, S. andÌýPisoiu, D. (2020)Ìý‘’. Studies in Conflict & Terrorism 43 (2020), 493-508
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. Punishment & Society 17 (2015),Ìý211-229.Ìý
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Edited books:
Sharon Dodua Otoo – Literature, Politics, Possibility. German Life and Letters special issue (2024) (ed. with Tara Talwar Windsor)
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Epistemic Injustice and Creative Agency. Perspectives on Global Literature and Film, ed. with Stephanie Galasso. London: Routledge 2023
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Women, Global Protest Movements and Political Agency: Rethinking the Legacy of 1968 [Vol 1], ed. with Katharina Karcher. London: Routledge 2019
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Gender, Emancipation, and Political Violence: Rethinking the Legacy of 1968 [Vol 2], ed. with Katharina Karcher. London: Routledge 2019
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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
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The Feminine in German Culture, ed. with Charlotte Woodford. German Life and Letters Special Issue, October 2014
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Women and Death: Warlike Women in the German Literary and Cultural Imagination, ed. with Helen Watanabe-O’Kelly. Rochester, NY: Camden House 2009
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Masculinities in German Culture, ed. with Peter Davies. Edinburgh German Yearbook 2008
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Myths and Mythmaking, ed. with Laura Martin, Alison Phipps, Christl Reissenberger. German Life and Letters Special Issue 2004
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