Sarah Star

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
ENG103H Literature and Medicine 
ENG202H British Literature in the World I: Medieval to Eighteenth-Century
ENG255H Introduction to Canadian Literature
ENG275H Feminist Approaches to Literature
ENG326H Premodern World Literatures

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