Professor Sarah Ross
Victoria University of Wellington, Te Herenga Waka
Sarah C. E. Ross is Professor of English at Te Herenga Waka, Victoria University of Wellington. She works on early modern anglophone literary culture, with a focus on poetry and poetics, women’s writing, politics, religion, and print and manuscript culture. Her recent publications include chapters in Shakespeare Survey and The Oxford History of Poetry in English; the Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Women’s Writing in English, 1540–1700 (2022, with Danielle Clarke and Elizabeth Scott-Baumann), awarded the Roland Bainton Prize for Reference and the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender’s Collaborative Project award; Early Modern Women’s Complaint: Gender, Form, and Politics (2020, with Rosalind Smith); and Women Poets of the English Civil War (2017, with Elizabeth Scott-Baumann). She is currently completing a book on Early Modern Women and the Poetry of Complaint (with Rosalind Smith and Michelle O’Callaghan), forthcoming with Oxford University Press.
Professor Ross has a long-standing commitment to ANZAMEMS, as conference convenor in Wellington in 2017, and as current New Zealand Vice-President and Editor of Parergon with Professor Rosalind Smith.
Professor Ross and Professor Smith were elected by the members of ANZAMEMS at the 2021 AGM to the roles on the Committee of Vice-President (NZ) and Editor respectively, with the full knowledge that they would co-edit the journal Parergon together. This arrangement for the dual editorship of Parergon fulfils conditions set out in the ANZAMEMS constitution.