Dr. Sarah Tharp

Education:
Ph.D., M.A., Baylor University
B.A., Olivet Nazarene University

712-707-7048
sarah.tharp@nwciowa.edu

Dr. Tharp joined Northwestern's faculty after serving as a postdoctoral teaching fellow at Baylor University, where she earned a master's degree and doctorate in English. She majored in English and social sciences as an undergraduate student at Olivet Nazarene University. Her research examines nineteenth-century representations of the past, especially the Middle Ages.

+Publications and presentations"'a passion for art had got worked into the fabric of my being': Twain's Hank Morgan at the Threshold of Art Criticism." Nineteenth-Century Studies Association. Louisville, KY, March 14-16, 2024."Feasting on Fat Bucks: Hunting Laws and Just Governance in Cooper's The Pioneers and Scott's Ivanhoe." The James Fenimore Cooper Society Journal, vol. 34, no. 1, Spring/Summer 2023, pp. 18-30."The Burden of Southern Medievalism in Mark Twain and Albion W. Tourgée." Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers. Houston, TX, October 12-14, 2023. "Christianity and the Reconstruction of the South in Albion W. Tourgée's Bricks without Straw." Southwest Conference on Christianity and Literature. Waco, TX, September 21-23, 2023. "Would Morris 'have regarded the Yankee at the Court of King Arthur as blasphemy'? Medievalism and Transatlantic Political Discourse in Mark Twain and William Morris." Nineteenth-Century Studies Association. Sacramento, CA, March 30-April 1, 2023. "Traces of Medievalism in Charles Brockden Brown's Edgar Huntly," International Conference for the Study of Medievalism. Boone, NC, October 20-22, 2022. Virtual Presentation. "Dame Ragnelle's Authority through Dialogue," Southeastern Medieval Association. Greensboro, NC, November 14-16, 2019. "Maintaining and Mediating Authorial Language: Richard Morris's Edition of Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight," Texas Medieval Association. Waco, TX, September 29-30, 2017.

+Professional experiencePostdoctoral Teaching Fellow, Department of English, Baylor University (2023-24)Graduate Fellow, Academy for Teaching and Learning, Baylor University (2022-23) Teacher of Record, Department of English, Baylor University (2017-2020, 2021, 2022) Assistant Director of First-Year Writing, Department of English, Baylor University (2020, 2021)

+HonorsSpecial Collections Teaching Fellowship, Armstrong Browning Library, Baylor UniversityBryce C. Brown Research Fellowship, Mayborn Museum, Baylor UniversityThe Christine Fall Award: Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant of the Year, Department of English, Baylor University