Sarah Isabelle Fengler is a DPhil student at the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages and Jesus College, Oxford. The working title of her doctoral thesis is European Old Testament Tragedies in the Age of Enlightenment. Her research is funded by the Open-Oxford-Cambridge AHRC Doctoral Partnership and the Baillie Gifford Scholarship.

 

Current Projects

European Old Testament Tragedies in the Age of Enlightenment (doctoral thesis)
German translation of John Guillory, On Close Reading (2025), together with Beer Albers (LMU Munich). Under contract with ZFL Berlin. 

 

Publications

See ORCiD

 

Research Interests

Comparative Literature
Theories and History of Tragedy
Theories of Genre
Religion and Literature
Enlightenment

 

Teaching

05/2022– Associate Fellow (AFHEA), Advance HE
 

Mainz

04/2026–09/2026: Eine Literatur des Exzessiven? Das Melodrama als Gattung und Modus
10/2025–03/2026: Grundbegriffe der Textanalyse II (Dramen- und Gattungstheorie)
04/2024–09/2024: Literatur und die Bibel
10/2023–03/2024: Grundbegriffe der Textanalyse: Lyrik, Drama, Erzähltexte 

 

Oxford

04/2025–06/2025: Paper IV: Historical Linguistics (Trinity 2025)
01/2024–03/2024: Paper VII: Four Lectures on German Literature, 1450-1800 (Hilary 2024)
10/2021–06/2022: Grammatikübung (Michaelmas 2021, Hilary 2022, Trinity 2022)
10/2021–03/2022: Paper IV: Historical Linguistics (Michaelmas 2021, Hilary 2022)

 

Education

02/2025–03/2025: Visiting Researcher, University of Oslo (NO)
10/2023–09/2024: Visiting Researcher, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (GER)
10/2020– DPhil Candidate in Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford (UK)
2019: Visiting Student, Cornell University (USA)
2018–2020: MA Comparative Literature, Goethe University Frankfurt (GER)
2017: Visiting Student, University of Bergen (NO)
2015–2018: BA Political Science and Scandinavian Studies, Goethe University Frankfurt (GER)