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Sarah Comyn is an Associate Professor in the School of English, Drama and Film at University College Dublin, specializing in Economic and Environmental Humanities. She leads the IRC-funded Imperial Minerals project and co-leads a Mellon-funded Global Humanities Institute on post-extractivist legacies. Her research bridges literature, political economy, and colonial history, with a focus on the British settler colonies of Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa.
- PhD, University of Melbourne
- Professional Certificate in University Teaching and Learning, University College Dublin (2022)
- Graduate Certificate in Advanced Leadership and Learning, University of Melbourne
Her research interests include 19th-century literary culture, settler colonial literature, the literary representation of mineral extraction, and the transhistorical relationship between literature and political economy. She employs hemispheric, southern, and postcolonial theories to challenge metropolitan-centered literary paradigms and explore south-south literary networks. Her work emphasizes the role of public institutions like mechanics’ institutes and libraries in shaping colonial citizenship and literary value.
Her recent publications span monographs, edited collections, and journal articles in venues such as Journal of Victorian Culture and Journal of Commonwealth Literature. Her recent book Political Economy (2024) traces the evolution of economic thought through literary representation, while her earlier works examine Austen’s engagement with political economy and the cultural role of colonial libraries.
- Humanities Research Centre Visiting Fellow, ANU (2020)
- Chawton House Library Visiting Fellowship (2016)
- Australian Postgraduate Award (2010)
- Amy Gaye Cowper Tennent Memorial Scholarship (2011)
- Dwight Final Examination Prize (2009)
Comyn supervises PhD students and mentors postdoctoral researchers in 19th-century global literary studies, the economic humanities, and ecocriticism. She has secured major grants including the IRC Starting Laureate Award for Imperial Minerals and an Ad Astra Fellowship. Her teaching emphasizes research-led pedagogy, anti-racist curriculum development, and the application of literary analysis to non-traditional 'texts' such as currencies and colonial maps. She coordinates modules including Fiction and Financial Crises, Un/Settling Global Literatures, and Reading South Africa.
She is affiliated with the UCD Humanities Institute and leads the Literary Mines Database project, contributing to digital humanities and collaborative research on extractive industries and literary culture.
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