Sarah is assistant professor of comparative literature at Indiana University. Her current book project, tentatively entitled “ 'What Virtue and Wisdom Can Do' : Homer's Odyssey in the Renaissance Imagination”, explores the cultural significance of the Odyssey at specific moments in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe and its creative reception in English and Italian Renaissance epic, romance, and opera. Other teaching and research interests include various topics in Renaissance epic and romance, the relationship of literature and music, and tyrannicide and resistance theory in early modern literature. Articles in print and in progress examine Milton's engagement with contemporary practices of reading the Odyssey in Paradise Lost and Comus. Sarah received a BA in Renaissance Studies and a PhD in Renaissance Studies and English from Yale and MA degrees in Renaissance Studies and in Intellectual and Cultural History from Queen Mary, and was Visiting Scholar at CELL in 2007.