Year Admitted: 2025
Bio
Sarah Licht is a Literary Studies PhD student at UW-Madison. They received their BA in English and Psychology from Grinnell College and their MA in English at Georgetown University. They are interested in how Victorian popular fiction reflects and refracts wider anxieties around sociopolitical movements and shifts, concerning embodiment, marriage, and divorce.
Research Interests
Victorian Literature, Popular Fiction, the Novel, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Skin Studies, and Political and Feminist Philosophy
Selected Publications or Research
Licht, Sarah. “Affective Transmission and Haptic Contact in Middlemarch.” George Eliot–George Henry Lewes Studies, vol. 75, no. 2, 2023, pp. 152–167.
Licht, Sarah. “‘The Most Pitiless and Calculating of Human Creatures’: The Rational Woman and Transcendent Skin in Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Lady Audley’s Secret.” Women’s Writing, forthcoming 2025.