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Dr. Sarah Schäfer-Althaus is a Lecturer in Anglophone Literature and Culture at the University of Koblenz, Germany. She joined the Department of English and American Studies in 2014 after earning her B.A. from the University of Siegen and her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Paderborn. Her academic work spans medieval to nineteenth-century literature, gender/sexuality studies, body theory, and interdisciplinary intersections with medical and blue humanities.
Her research has resulted in the 2016 monograph The Gendered Body: Female Sanctity, Gender Hybridity and the Body in Women’s Hagiography and co-edited collections like Transient Bodies in Anglophone Literature and Culture (2020), Medicine and Mobility in Nineteenth-Century British Literature, History, and Culture (2023), and Traveling Bodies: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Traveling as an Embodied Practice (2024). She is currently developing two book projects: Passionate Encounters: Desire and Shame/-lessness in Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Culture, 1660-1830 and Aquatic Matters in Nineteenth-Century British Literature, History, and Culture.
Dr. Schäfer-Althaus contributes to international academic collaborations as the coordinator for institutions in the U.S. and Scotland and co-organizes the University of Koblenz's International Day. She holds the RLP Certificate for University Didactics, is a certified Writing and Career Development Coach, and has received recognition for her teaching through multiple nominations for the RLP State Teaching Award.
