Sarah Neville

Sarah Neville is an Associate Professor jointly appointed in English and Theatre, Film, and Media Arts at The Ohio State University. Her expertise spans Renaissance literature, textual editing, book history, and Shakespearean performance studies, with a focus on how media technologies shape knowledge production and authority.

• Associate Editor, New Oxford Shakespeare (2016-17)
• Associate Coordinating Editor, Digital Renaissance Editions
• General Textual Editor, Linked Early Modern Drama Online
• Founder, Lord Denney’s Players academic theatre company

Her 2022 monograph Early Modern Herbals and the Book Trade redefines scientific authority through printers' economic practices. She currently edits 2 Henry VI for the Arden Shakespeare.

Recent publications demonstrate her interdisciplinary approach:

• 2023: Digital tool development (Database of Early English Playbooks)
• 2021: Textual theory in transatlantic context
• 2020: Digital performance adaptation and women's printing practices
• 2019: Digital commentary evolution

Scientific awards include:

• 2020 Paul W. Brown Excellence in Teaching Award
• 2018 Columbus City Council commendation for innovative theater

Her work intersects textual scholarship with material culture studies, particularly examining print capitalism's role in shaping scientific discourse during the Renaissance.