Sarah Ross is Professor of English Literature at Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington, where she is also Head of the School of English, Film, Theatre, Media and Communication, and Art History.
Her work is on early modern anglophone literary culture, with a focus on poetry and poetics, women’s writing, politics, religion, and print and manuscript history. Her recent collaborative publications include the Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Women’s Writing in English, 1540-1700 (2022), awarded the Roland Bainton Prize for Reference; the Early Modern Women’s Complaint Poetry Index (2021), awarded a Renaissance Society of America Digital Innovation Award; and Women Poets of the English Civil War (2017), awarded the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender’s prize for a Teaching Edition. Recent work on seventeenth-century poetry, song, and manuscript and print culture appears in Shakespeare Survey, The Oxford History of Poetry in English, Huntington Library Quarterly, and The Seventeenth Century.
She is currently completing a book on Early Modern Women and the Poetry of Complaint (with Rosalind Smith and Michelle O’Callaghan), forthcoming with Oxford University Press in 2025.