UTM Deer

Sarah Star

Title/Position
PhD | Assistant Professor LTA
Medieval Literature and History

Teaching and Research Interests:
Medieval literature, medical history, medieval religious and racial identities, linguistic history, medieval gender

Courses Taught
ENG100H Effective Writing
ENG102H How to Research Literature
ENG255H Introduction to Canadian Literature

Publications:
Star, Sarah, ed. Henry Daniel and the Rise of Middle English Medical Writing (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2022), including solo-authored chapters, “Reading Henry Daniel,” and “The almost-Latin Medical Language of Late Medieval England.” 

Harvey, E. Ruth, M. Teresa Tavormina, and Sarah Star Liber Uricrisiarum: A Reading Edition. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020). 

Star, Sarah. “Will’s Prosthesis.” Yearbook of Langland Studies 35 (2021): 11-27. 

Star, Sarah. “‘The Precious Plenty’: Julian of Norwich’s Visions of Blood.” The Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures 46.1 (2020): 71-90. 

Star, Sarah. “The Textual Worlds of Henry Daniel.” Studies in the Age of Chaucer 40 (2018): 191-216. 

Star, Sarah. “MS HM 505: Henry Daniel, Medieval English Medicine and Linguistic Innovation.” Huntington Library Quarterly 81.1 (2018): 63-106. 

Star, Sarah. “Anima carnis in sanguine est: Blood, Life, and The King of Tars.” JEGP 115.4 (2016): 442-62. 

Star, Sarah. “Reading Chaucer’s Calkas: Prophecy and Authority in Troilus and Criseyde.” The Chaucer Review 51.3 (2016): 382-401. Co-authored with Jeff Espie