Research Area(s)
- Chaucer's dream visions
- Textual reception
- Medieval and early modern science
Education
- Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Notre Dame
- Ph.D., Medieval Studies, University of Toronto
- M.A., Medieval Studies, University of Toronto
- M.A., English, Queen’s University
- B.A., English, St. Thomas More College, University of Saskatchewan
Research Projects
- Textual Communities, Textual Selves: Essays in Dialogue with Brian Stock, Ed. Sarah Powrie and Gur Zak
- "Bernard Silvestris' Cosmographia and the Transformation of the Self"
- "Keats Reading Chaucer: Troilus and Criseyde and 'The Eve of St. Agnes'"
Publications and Presentations
- Textual Communities, Textual Selves, ed. Sarah Powrie and Gur Zak (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies Press, 2023).
- with Gur Zak, "Introduction," Textual Communities, Textual Selves, ed. Sarah Powrie and Gur Zak (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies Press, 2023), 1-17.
- "Allegories of the Formless Self in Augustine’s Creation and Bernard Silvestris’s Cosmographia," in Textual Communities, Textual Selves, ed. Sarah Powrie and Gur Zak, (Toronto: PIMS Press, 2023), 172-94.
- "Keats Reading Chaucer: Troilus and Arrested Time in 'The Eve of St. Agnes'" in Keats's Reading/Reading Keats: Essays in Memory of Jack Stillinger, ed. Beth Lau, Gregory Kucich, and Daniel Johnson (London: Palgrave Press, 2022), 129-51, https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-79530-6_7
- "Addiction and the Reinterpretation of Desire in Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy," Literature and Medicine 39.2 (2021): 351-73 (Johns Hopkins University Press), https://muse.jhu.edu/article/840480
- "Criseyde, Consent, and the #MeToo Reader," New Chaucer Studies: Pedagogy and Profession 2.1 (2021): 18-33, https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9sz0n2bb
- "Geoffrey Chaucer: The Parliament of Fowls" The Literary Encyclopedia. Vol. 1.2.1.02: Medieval and Early Modern England, 1066-1485. Ed. Kate Ash-Irisarri, David Fuller, Hugh Magennis, Jamie McKinstry, Sarah Peverly. First published 26 October 2017.
https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=7344 - "A Moral Garden 'Out of Olde Feldes': Chaucer's De-allegorized Virtue in the Parliament of Fowls," Modern Philology 114.2 (2016): 170-94 (University of Chicago Press) https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/687326
- "Speculative Tensions: The Blurring of Augustinian Interiority in the Second Anniversary," Connotations 25.1 (2015-16): 1-18 (University of Tuebingen, Germany): recognized with the John Donne Society's Distinguished Publication Award with R. Netzley and M. Ursell https://www.connotations.de/article/sarah-powrie-speculative-tensions-the-blurring-of-augustinian-interiority-in-the-second-anniversarie/
- "Knowing and Willing in Chaucer's Parliament of Fowls" Chaucer Review 50.3-4 (2015): 368-92 (Penn State University Press) https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/10.5325/chaucerrev.50.3-4.0368.pdf
- "Nicholas of Cusa's Dialogue with Augustine: The Measure of the Soul's Greatness in De Ludo Globi," Renaissance and Reformation 38.2 (2015): 5-25 (University of Toronto Press) https://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/renref/search/authors/view?givenName=Sarah&familyName=Powrie&affiliation=&country=&authorName=Powrie%2C%20Sarah
- "Lost and Found in Translation: Updating Chaucer's Status with the Millennial Generation," Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching 22.1 (2015): 53-64.
- "The Importance of Fourteenth-Century Natural Philosophy for Nicholas of Cusa's Infinite Universe," The American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 87.1 (2013): 33-53 https://www.pdcnet.org/acpq/content/acpq_2013_0087_0001_0033_0053
- "Spenser's Mutabilitie and the Indeterminate Universe," Studies in English Literature 53.1 (2013): 73-89 (Johns Hopkins University Press) https://www.jstor.org/stable/41818884?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents
- "Alan of Lille's Anticlaudianus as Intertext in Chaucer's House of Fame," Chaucer Review 44.3 (2010): 246-67. (Penn State University Press), https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/10.5325/chaucerrev.44.3.0246.pdf?refreqid=excelsior%3A838d127eb3211b7c2d50f5d5ce63e0bb
- "Transposing World Harmony: John Donne's Creation Poetics in the Context of a Medieval Tradition," Studies in Philology 107.2 (2010): 212-35. (North Carolina University Press) https://www.jstor.org/stable/25681416?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents
- "Science in the Middle Ages," "Pierre Duhem," "Anneliese Meier," and "Raymond Klibansky," in A. Classen, ed., Handbook of Medieval Studies (Berlin and New York: de Gruyter, 2010).
- "The Celestial Progress of a Deathless Soul: John Donne's Second Anniversarie," John Donne Journal 26 (2007): 73-101.
Teaching Responsibilities
- ENG 111.3 Reading Poetry
- ENG 210.3 Literary Canons and Cultural Power
- ENG 277.3 Literary Uses of Mythology
- ENG 312.3 Early Chaucer: Romance Tragedy
- ENG 314.3 Early British Drama
- ENG 496.3 Career Internship Seminar
- CTST 200.3 Introduction to Catholic Studies
Administrative Responsibilities
- University Council, STM Representative
- Classical Medieval Renaissance Studies Executive Committee, STM Representative
- Catholic Studies Advisory Committee, Member
- STM Guidelines for the Award of Merit/Salary Increases Working Group, Member
- STM Tenure and Promotion Standards Review Committee, Member
- STM Library Committee, Humanities Representative