Dr. Sarah Tharp
Assistant Professor of English
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.
"'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.
Postdoctoral 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)
Special Collections Teaching Fellowship, Armstrong Browning Library, Baylor University
Bryce C. Brown Research Fellowship, Mayborn Museum, Baylor University
The Christine Fall Award: Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant of the Year, Department of English, Baylor University