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 the Brontës, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, biofiction, transmedia adaptations; Anne Lister, and Gentleman Jack. She has published scholarly editions of Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Bram Stoker's The Lady of the Shroud, as well as articles on the work of J.M. Barrie, C. Bronte, E. D'Arcy, J.K. Rowling, M. Wollstonecraft and others. Research interests include decadence and the 1880s/1890s, the New Woman, Marie Corelli, adaptations of Victorian texts to film, children's literature, Thomas Hardy, Jack-the-Ripper, Vampires, gothic fiction, Neo/Victorianism, fictional representations of serial killers and forensic science in film/TV. and others; monographs include A Vindication of the Redhead: The Typology of Red Hair Throughout the Literary and Visual Arts (Palgrave 2021), Neo-Victorian Young Adult Narratives (Palgrave 2024), and Neo-Victorian Lesbians on Screen. Forthcoming projects include monographs Becoming Anne Lister (Palgrave 2025) and Neo-Victorian Portraits of the Art(ists) (in progress).

Maier has coedited (with Brenda Ayres) and contributed chapters to the following: 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 Danielle Dove), 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 was the recipient of the Dr. Allan P. Stuart Award for Excellence in Teaching (2003), was appointed University Teaching Scholar (2006), and received a UNB Merit Award (2022).