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RESEARCH INTERESTS

Sarah Brazil received her BA and MA from AV¶ÌÊÓƵ College Dublin, and holds a PhD in medieval English literature from the AV¶ÌÊÓƵ. She is the author ofÌýThe Corporeality of Clothing in Medieval Literature: Cognition, Kinesis, and the Sacred,Ìýpublished with Medieval Institute Publications in December 2018. This work investigates how clothing is used in literary, dramatic, and theological texts in order to give access to specific kinds of corporeal information, often at the point of transition between one bodily state and another. Her current project,ÌýHoly Humour in Early English Drama, is looking for new critical avenues to deal with the use of various forms of humour present in English biblical plays from the 15^thÌýand 16^thcenturies, with an interest in tracing historic forms of humour to their medieval/early modern use, its audience reception (taking into account physical, embodied dimensions such as cognition and emotion), and the history of criticism in humour studies. She returned to Geneva in the Spring of 2019 after spending 18 months undertaking a Swiss National Science Foundation postdoctoral project at the AV¶ÌÊÓƵ of Edinburgh.

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PUBLICATIONS

Books and Monographs

• The Corporeality of Clothing in Medieval Literature: Cognition, Kinesis, and the Sacred,ÌýEarly Drama, Art, and Music (Kalamazoo, Western Michigan AV¶ÌÊÓƵ: Medieval Institute Publications, 2018):Ìý
• Rise Up & Repeal: a Poetic Archive of the 8^thÌýAmendment, ed. by Sarah Brazil and Sarah Bernstein (Bristol: Sad Press, 2019):Ìý

Journal Articles

• ‘Modulating Tone in the Early English Slaughter of the Innocents Plays: Between Grief, Vengeance, and Humour’,ÌýEuropean Medieval DramaÌý22 (2020 for 2018): 11-36
• ‘PerformingÌýFemale Sanctity—and Reading it:ÌýTheÌýVisitatioÌýSepulchriÌýofÌýWilton and Barking Abbey’,ÌýMedieval Feminist ForumÌý57.1, Special Issue: ‘Everyday Arts: Craft, Voice, Performance’, ed. by Irina Dumitrescu & Emma O’ Loughlin Bérat, forthcoming, 2021
• ‘Forms of Pretence in Pre-Modern Drama: From theÌýVisitatio SepulchriÌýtoÌýHamlet’,ÌýEuropean Medieval DramaÌý20 (2017 for 2016):Ìý181-201.ÌýWinner of the 2018 Medieval andÌýRenaissance Drama Society Martin Stevens Prize for Best New Article:Ìý
• ‘Doctrinal Orthodoxy and the Dramatic in Liturgical and Secular English Drama’,ÌýSwiss Papers in English Language and LiteratureÌý31 (2015):Ìý17-36
• ‘The Codification of Heraldry in Middle English Arthurian Texts’,ÌýCoat of Arms, X.I, (The Heraldry Society, 2014):Ìý1-8

Book Chapters

• ‘Collective Emotions and the Audience in Early English Drama’, inÌýHistoire des émotions collectives: épistémologies, émergences, experiences, edited by Piroska Nagy and Damien Boquet.ÌýClassique Garnier, forthcoming 2021
• ‘The Materiality of Metaphors: Why theÌýAffectusÌýNeeds Shoes in TheÌýDoctrine of the Hert’, inÌýEmotions and Medieval Textual Media, ed. by Mary C. Flannery (Turnhout: Brepols, 2019), pp. 177-94Ìý
• ‘Drama’, inÌýA Cultural History of the Emotions in the Medieval Age, 350-1300, ed. by Clare Monagle and Juanita Feros Ruys (London & NY: Bloomsbury), pp. 65-81Ìý
• ‘The Body’, co-written with Guillemette Bolens, inÌýA Cultural History of Dress and Fashion in the Medieval Age, ed. by Sarah-Grace Heller (London & NY: Bloomsbury, 2017), pp. 53-69

Book Reviews

• Review of Tamara Atkin and Laura Estill, eds.,ÌýEarly British Drama in Manuscript.ÌýEuropean Medieval DramaÌý24 (2020): 248-250.
• Review of Estella Ciobanu,ÌýRepresentations of the Body in Middle English Biblical Drama.ÌýSpeculumÌý95, 1 (2020): 216-217.
• ‘Middle English: Drama’.ÌýYear’s Work in English StudiesÌý98. Oxford: Oxford AV¶ÌÊÓƵ Press, 2019: 248-266. With Daisy Black.
• Review of Philip Butterworth and Katie Normington, eds.,ÌýMedieval Theatre Performance.ÌýEarlyÌýTheatreÌý22, 1 (2019): 167-170.Ìý
• Review of Jay Zysk,ÌýShadow and Substance: Eucharistic Controversy Across the Reformation Divide.ÌýReading ReligionÌý(2018):
• Review of Nicole D. Smith,ÌýSartorial Strategies: Outfitting Aristocrats andÌýFashioning Conduct in Late Medieval Literature.ÌýH-FranceÌý15, 185 (2015):Ìý

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CONFERENCES

• ‘Feuille de Vigne’, Sous les yeux de Mme d’Epinay, Conférence & Performance, avec l’artiste Angela Marzullo, Théâtre Grütli,Ìý23 septembre, 2019
• ‘Chaussures et métaphores corporelles au MoyenÌýÂge’,ÌýJournée d’étude: Regards croisés autour de l’objet médiéval: Chausses et chaussures, Musée de Cluny, Paris, 21 mai,Ìý2019
• ‘Grappling with Humour in its many forms: The Language of Play and Acts of Torture in the Early English Passion Plays’,ÌýHumour and Obscenity in the Medieval and Early Modern World, MEMSA Conference, Durham AV¶ÌÊÓƵ, 9-10 July, 2018
• ‘Experiencing Comedy in Early English Biblical Drama’,ÌýCities of Readers III: The Performance of Texts, Leeds International Medieval Conference, July 2-5
• ‘Approaching Sacred Comedy in Early English Drama’,ÌýMedieval and Renaissance Drama Society, New Voices Panel,Kalamazoo International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 10-13
• ‘Sacred Comedy in Early English Drama’, Institute for the Advanced Studies of the Humanities, AV¶ÌÊÓƵ of Edinburgh, February 2018
• ‘The Humour of the Slaughter of the Innocents Plays’, Leeds International Medieval Conference, July 2017
• ‘A Critical Reassessment of Dramatic Terminology, or The Problem with Mimesis’,ÌýCultures of Performance, Medieval English Theatre (MeTh), AV¶ÌÊÓƵ of Glasgow, March 2017
• ‘Imitation in theÌýVisitatio Sepulchri’. Société Internationale de Théâtre Médiéval (SITM), Durham, 2016
• ‘Clothing and the Postlapsarian Body in Early English Drama’, International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, 2013, Winner of the 2014 Alexandra F. Johnston Prize for best graduate research paper:Ìý