Sarah L. Higley
Associate Professor of English
PhD University of California at Berkeley
Medieval vernacular languages and literature of Northern Europe; film and media studies; fiction
Research interests
Higley's primary interests lie in northern medieval literatures with an early
emphasis on language, linguistics, and poetic structure. Her later work in
fantasy and science fiction led her to explore medieval and modern
notions of magic, machinery, monstrosity, and artifice. Her recent publications
investigate the early origins of the werewolf, the medieval concept of the "robot," and manifestations throughout time of "simulacra"-- lately, miniatures
and artificial languages. This last interest has inspired her book (in
production) on Hildegard of Bingen's "Lingua Ignota."
Selected publications
Books
- Between Languages: The Uncooperative Text in Early Welsh and Old English Nature
Poetry. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State Press, 1993.
- Nothing That Is: Millennial Cinema and the Blair Witch Controversies.
Co-editor, Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock. Detroit: Wayne State University Press,
2003.
Forthcoming
- Hildegard of Bingen's Unknown Language: An Edition, Translation, and Discussion
(title provisional). New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007
Selected Articles
- "Thought in Beowulf and Our Perception of It: Interiority, Power, and the Problem of the Revealed Mind." Forthcoming in The Hero Recovered: Essays in Medieval Heroism in Honor of George Clark. Eds. Jim Waldon and Robin Waugh. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications.
- "Finding the Man Under the Skin: Identity, Hybridity, Expulsion, and the Werewolf." The Shadow Walkers: Jacob Grimm's Mythology of the Monstrous. Ed. Thomas Shippey. Tempe, AZ: Arizona State University Press, 2004.
- "The Wanton Hand: Reading and Reaching into Bodies and Grammars in Riddle 12." Naked Before God: Uncovering the Body in Anglo-Saxon England. Eds. Benjamin Withers and Jonathan Wilcox. West Virginia University Press, 2003, 29-59.
- "A Taste for Shrinking: Movie Miniatures and the Unreal City." Camera Obscura 47 (2001/2002): 1-35.
- "Alien Intellect and the Roboticization of the Scientist." Camera Obscura 40-41 1997): 131-162.
- "The Spoils of Annwn: Taliesin and Material Poetry." A Celtic Florilegium: Studies in Memory of Brendan O Hehir. Eds. Kathryn A. Klar, Eve E. Sweetser, Claire Thomas (Lawrence, MA: Celtic Studies Publications, 1996, 43-53.
- "Dirty Magic: Seithr, Science, and the Parturating Man in Old Norse and Early Welsh Literature." Essays in Medieval Studies 11 (1995): 137-49.
- "The Lost Parts of Artificial Women." Bathhouse: A Journal of Hybrid Art, 3.1 2005).
- Several print publications in fiction magazines.
Teaching
Old and Middle English, and Middle Welsh language and literature; film studies; creative writing.
Recent undergraduate courses
- Old English
- Chaucer
- History of the English Language
- Celtic Literature
- Speculative Fiction
Recent graduate courses
- The Matrix Of Wisdom: Medieval Women Writers
- The Body Monstrous In The Middle Ages
- Transforming Flesh: Wargs, Werewolves, Witches, And Other Shifting
Creatures
- Robots and Representation
A sample of my courses and their websites can be found at:
http://www.courses.rochester.edu/higley/
slhi@mail.rochester.edu
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Essays on The Blair Witch Project are collected by Sarah Higley in Nothing That Is: Millenial Cinema and the Blair Witch Controversies.
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