1. What is the research focus of Sarah Knight, Professor of Renaissance Literature at the University of Leicester?
Sarah Knight's research focuses on the association between literary composition and educational experience, and on works written at or about early modern institutions of learning such as schools, colleges, universities, and Inns of Court. She has published extensively on seventeenth-century English and Latin literature, particularly drama, poetry, and rhetoric. Her first book was a translation and co-edition of Leon Battista Alberti's Latin prose satire Momus. She has also edited and translated texts for the multi-authored critical edition of John Nichols's The Progresses and Public Processions of Queen Elizabeth I. Knight's research interests also include the cultural experience of modern urban life and studies in the Ovidian tradition.
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