Sara L. Maurer

Assistant Professor

Specialty
British and Irish nineteenth-century literature

Degrees
B.A. Rice University; M.A., Ph.D., Indiana University, Bloomington

Profile
Sara L. Maurer works on British and Irish literature of the nineteenth century. She has published articles on Maria Edgeworth's Irish novels, the politics of the wife in Anthony Trollope's serial fiction, and the rhetoric of English common law in colonial administration. She is currently completing a book-length project exploring narratives of ownership and the imagination of territory in England and Ireland.

Recent Publications

“Exporting Time Immemorial: Writing Land Law Reform in India and Ireland.” Nineteenth-Century Prose 32 (2005): 48-80.

“Disowning to Own: Maria Edgeworth and the Illegitimacy of National Ownership.” Criticism 44 (2002): 363-88.

Contact Information
253 Decio Faculty Hall
(574) 631-3852
smaurer1@nd.edu