Sarah Engle

Sarah G. Engle (she/her) is a PhD student in English at the University of Georgia, specializing in early modern literature and drama, adaptation theory, and gender and sexuality studies. She holds a BA and MA in English from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Her undergraduate thesis examined obsession and female sexuality in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, while her master’s thesis, What We Hold, is a poetry collection that explores inheritance, memory, and queerness through the frameworks of mythology, family history, and silence.

Her current research is situated at the intersections of Shakespeare and adaptation studies, with particular attention to questions of performance, queerness, and cultural memory. She has presented work on Richard Loncraine’s Richard III, on the politics of queerness and repression in adaptation, and on archival practice in docupoetry. She also draws on her background in creative writing to inform her critical approach, using poetry as a way of examining how myth, performance, and identity circulate across texts and histories.

Sarah has taught and assisted in a wide range of courses, including drama, children’s literature, American gothic fiction, and film studies, and she has delivered invited lectures on early modern drama. Her teaching emphasizes connections between text and performance, with a focus on how literature adapts, survives, and transforms across mediums and cultural moments.