Sarah E. Maier

Sarah E. Maier is a Professor of English and Comparative Literature in the Department of Humanities and Languages as well as former Director of Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies at the University of New Brunswick (Saint John). She received her BA, MA (English), and PhD (Comparative Literature and Film Studies) from the University of Alberta, and she is a graduate of The School of Criticism and Theory (Dartmouth/Cornell).

Maier has published on Taylor Swift, neo/Victorian séances, fictional profilers, the Brontës, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, biofiction, transmedia adaptations, Anne Lister, and Gentleman Jack, as well as articles on the work of J. M. Barrie, C. Brontë, E. D’Arcy, T. Hardy, J. K. Rowling, M. Wollstonecraft, and others. Research interests include Neo/Victorianism, biofiction, Young Adult/Children’s Literature, pop culture, the New Woman, Marie Corelli, adaptations of Victorian texts to film, Jack-the-Ripper, Vampires, gothic fiction, fictional representations of serial killers and forensic science in film/TV and others.

Maier has published full studies which include Neo-Victorian Lesbians on Screen (Anthem 2025; with Friars), Neo-Victorian Young Adult Narratives (Palgrave 2024), and A Vindication of the Redhead: The Typology of Red Hair Throughout the Literary and Visual Arts (Palgrave 2021; with Ayre). Forthcoming projects include monographs Becoming Anne Lister (Palgrave, in progress; with Friars), Neo-Victorian Authors and/as Characters (Palgrave, in progress) and Neo-Victorian Portraits of the Art(ists) (Anthem, in progress). She has published scholarly editions of Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the D'Urbervilles (2007), Bram Stoker’s The Lady of the Shroud (2012). Maier has been Editor of special issues on Neo-Victorian Considerations (2018), Charlotte Brontë at the Bicentennial for Literature Compass (2017), as well as Conan Doyle at the Fin(s) de Siècle(s) for OScholars (2015).

Maier has coedited (with Ayres) and contributed chapters to the following: Palgrave Handbook on Neo-Victorianism (Palgrave, 2024), The Routledge Handbook of Victorian Scandals in Literature and Culture (Routledge, 2023), Neo-Victorian Things: Re-Imagining Nineteenth-Century Material Cultures (Palgrave, 2022 co-edited with Ayres and Dove), Neo-Disneyism (Lang, 2022), Theological Dickens (Routledge, 2021), Neo-Victorian Madness: Rediagnosing Nineteenth-Century Mental Illness in Literature and Other Media (Palgrave, 2020); Neo-Gothic Narratives: Illusory Allusions from the Past (Anthem, 2020); Animals and Their Children in Victorian Culture (Routledge, 2020); and Reinventing Marie Corelli for the Twenty-first Century (Anthem 2019).

Dr. Maier has been the recipient of the Dr. Allan P. Stuart Award for Excellence in Teaching (2003), awarded the Department Teaching Award and the Faculty of Arts Teaching Award, and has been appointed University Teaching Scholar (2006). She received a UNB Merit Award (2022).