Sarah Beckwith Marcello Lotti Professor of English and Professor of Religion and Professor of Religious Studies and Theater Studies
Office Location: 315A Allen
Office Phone: 919-684-8705
Email Address: sarah.beckwith@duke.edu
- Office Hours:
- Tuesdays and Wednesdays 2:00pm - 4:00pm
- Education and Interests:
- Ph.D., King's College, London University
- Medieval Literature
- Sarah Beckwith works on late medieval religious writing. She is particularly interested in middle English religious writing in its fully cultural dimensions and in the intersections of writing and religious practice. She has published on Margery Kempe, the literature of anchoritism, medieval theatre and sacramental culture, in numerous essay collections and journals such as the South Atlantic Quarterly and Exemplaria. Her book, Christ's Body: Identity, Religion and Society in Medieval English Writing was published by Routledge in 1993. Her book, Signifying God: Social Relation and Symbolic Act in York's Play of Corpus Christi was published by the University of Chicago Press in the summer of 2001. She is currently working on a book on medieval and Renaissance drama centering on Shakespeare and the transformation of sacramental culture. The book is tentatively entitled The Mind's Retreat from the Face.
- Representative Publications
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- Signifying God: Social Relation and Symbolic Act in York's Play of Corpus Christi. U of Chicago P, 2001, Paperback ed. 2003.
- Christ's Body: Identity, Culture and Society in Late Medieval Writings. Routledge, 1996.
- JMEMS. Jan. 2003
- with D. Aers, eds.. Sacrifice: Medieval and Early Modern. JMEMS, special issue 31.3 (Fall, 2001).
- The Cultural Work of Medieval Theatre: Ritual Practice in England 1350-1600. JMEMS, special issue 29.1 (Winter, 1999).
- Catholicism and Catholicity: Eucharistic Communities in Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. Modern Theology 15.2 (Mar. 1999). (based on conference being held at Duke, April 17-19, under auspices of the Homeland Foundation)
- "Stephen Greenblatt's Hamlet and the Forms of Oblivion." JMEMS (Jan. 2003) 8000 words
- "Absent Presences: Resurrection Theatre in York." Festschrift for Derek Pearsall. Ed. D. Aers, Woodbridge, Boydell and Brewer. 2000.
