Dr Sarah Houghton-Walker

  • College positions:
    Fellow and College Lecturer in English
    Director of Studies
  • Subjects: English

Degrees

BA in English, M.Phil in English, PhD in English (University of Cambridge)

Research interests

My work explores the literature of the long eighteenth century, and particularly the poetry of the Romantic period. My books include monographs on Wordsworth's Recapitulations (OUP, 2023), Representations of the Gypsy in the Romantic Period (OUP, 2014) and John Clare’s Religion (Ashgate, 2009). I have two books forthcoming, a short critical biography of the poet John Clare, and an edited volume of essays on Clare for the Cambridge Companions series for CUP, and I've published various articles on a range of writers from the eighteenth century and Romantic period. I am co-founder and Director of the Cambridge Centre for John Clare Studies, and I speak and write on Clare for a range of audiences as part of that role. I have specific interests in marginality and marginal figures, literary conjunctions and repetitions, and the idea of spectacle, and I'm currently developing a project on weather in nineteenth century writing. 

Teaching interests

The literature of the long eighteenth century and practical criticism