Overview
Sarah Beckwith works on late medieval
religious writing, medieval and early modern drama, and ordinary language philosophy. She is the author of
Christ's Body: Identity, Religion and Society in
Medieval English Writing (London: Routledge, 1993, pbk 1996); Signifying God:
Social Relation and Symbolic Act in York's
Play of Corpus Christi (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001, pbk 2003), and Shakespeare and the Grammar of Forgiveness (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2011, pbk 2013).
She is currently working on a book about Shakespearean tragedy and about philosophy's love affair with the genre of tragedy and The Book of Second Chances, a book about versions of Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale. She co-edited JMEMS for several years, and co-founded the book series Re-Formations with the University of Notre Dame Press and is the editor of numerous collections of essays and journals.
Current Appointments & Affiliations
Katherine Everett Gilbert Distinguished Professor of English
·
2013 - Present
English,
Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Professor of Theater Studies
·
2009 - Present
Theater Studies,
Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Professor in the Department of Religion
·
2011 - Present
Religious Studies,
Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Professor of English
·
2001 - Present
English,
Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Bass Fellow
·
2008 - Present
English,
Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Recent Publications
Absent Presences: The Theatre of Resurrection in York
Chapter · January 1, 2023 The dead come to life in the bodies of the living – not just in resurrection but also in theatre. Corpus Christi theatre fully understands the complexity of this interrelationship in the palpable apparitions of Christ-the-actor to audiences in the Resurrec ... Full text CiteEnter the Child: A Scene from Stanley Cavell's the Claim of Reason
Journal Article Philosophy and Literature · October 1, 2022 Taking its cue from a resonant passage in Stanley Cavell’s The Claim of Reason, this essay reflects on the necessity of the figure of the child for Cavell’s philosophy and for his understanding of the differences between Austinian and Wittgensteinian crite ... Full text CiteImagining the Virtues: Medieval and Early Modern Histories
Journal Article Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies · September 1, 2022 Full text CiteRecent Grants
Forms of Conversion: Religion, Culture, and Cognitive Ecologies in Early Modern Europe and its Worlds
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Mcgill University, Montreal · 2013 - 2019Paper Dolls
Institutional SupportPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by The Mary Duke Biddle Foundation · 2001 - 2002View All Grants
Education, Training & Certifications
King's College London (United Kingdom) ·
1992
Ph.D.
University of Oxford (United Kingdom) ·
1982
M.A.
University of Oxford (United Kingdom) ·
1981
B.A.