Sarah E. Maier

Sarah Maier is a Professor of English and Comparative Literature in the Department of Humanities and Languages as well as 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).

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.

Dr. Maier is the recipient of the Dr. Allan P. Stuart Award for Excellence in Teaching (2003) and was appointed University Teaching Scholar (2006).