Dr Sarah Houghton-Walker, Gonville and Caius

sh250@cam.ac.uk

 

 

Biographical Information

Sarah Houghton-Walker studied at St John's College, Cambridge, and then held a Research Fellowship there. Since 2007, she has been a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College. She is also Co-Director of the Centre for John Clare Studies, which is based in the English Faculty.

Research Interests

Sarah works mainly on Romantic-period poetry. She has published books on John Clare, on so-called 'gypsies' in the Romantic period, and on Wordsworth. Her particular interests at the moment include the weather in Romantic-period literature, specificity and generality in natural history poetry in the long eighteenth century, and the Pauline idea of the 'gift' in Wordsworth's writing.    

Areas of Graduate Supervision

Sarah has supervised graduate students working on various aspects of later eighteenth-century and Romantic-period literature and culture, and is particularly keen to work with those interested in William Wordsworth, John Clare, and Jane Austen.

Selected Publications

  • Sarah Houghton-Walker, John Clare (Reaktion Critical Lives, forthcoming)
  • Sarah Houghton-Walker, ed., The Cambridge Companion to John Clare (CUP, 2024)
  • Sarah Houghton-Walker, Wordsworth's Poetry of Repetition (OUP, 2023)
  • Sarah Houghton-Walker, 'Repetition in "The Robins Nest"', Romanticism 26.2, 2020
  • Sarah Houghton-Walker, ‘The Shepherd's Calendar and Forms of Repetition’, in Palgrave Advances in John Clare Studies, ed. by Simon Kovesi and Erin Lafford, Palgrave, 2020
  • Sarah Houghton-Walker, ‘The Coroners Report into the Death of Mary Joyce’, John Clare Society Journal 2018
  • Sarah Houghton-Walker, Representations of the Gypsy in the Romantic Period, Oxford University Press, 2014
  • Sarah Houghton-Walker, John Clare's Religion, Ashgate, 2009
  • Sarah Houghton-Walker, "Clare's Gypsies and Literary Influence", John Clare Society Journal 28, 2009
  • Sarah Houghton Walker, "John Clare's Gypsies", Romani Studies, 2009
  • Sarah Houghton-Walker, "Cowper's Gypsies", Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, 2008
  • Sarah Houghton, "The 'Community' of John Clare's Helpston", Studies in English Literature, 1500 - 1900, 2006
  • Sarah Hougton, "John Clare and Revaluation", Literature Compass 2.1, 2005
  • Sarah Houghton, "'Some little thing of other days / Saved from the wreck of time': John Clare and Festivity", John Clare Society Journal 23, 2004
  • Sarah Houghton, "'Enkindling extacy': The Sublime Vision of John Clare", Romanticism 9.2, 2003