Sarah Isabelle Fengler is a DPhil student at the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages and Jesus College, Oxford. Her doctoral thesis explores European Old Testament tragedies in the Age of Enlightenment, and her research is funded by the Open-Oxford-Cambridge AHRC Doctoral Partnership and the Baillie Gifford Scholarship. She is a postgraduate representative of the British Comparative Literature Association and a co-convenor of the Oxford Scandinavian Studies Network.

 

Research Interests

Comparative Literature, Tragedy, Religion and Literature, 18th Century, Enlightenment Thought

 

Teaching

05/2022-: Associate Fellow (AFHEA), Advance HE

 

Mainz

04/2024-09/2024: Literatur und die Bibel

10/2023-03/2024: Grundbegriffe der Textanalyse: Lyrik, Drama, Erzähltexte 

 

Oxford

01/2024-03/2024: Paper VII: 4 Lectures on German Literature from 1450-1800

10/2021-06/2022: Grammatikübung: German Grammar

10/2021-03/2022: Paper IV: Historical Linguistics

 

Education

15/02/2025-15/03/2025: Visiting Researcher (University of Oslo)

10/2023-09/2024: Visiting Researcher (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)

2020-present: DPhil Candidate Medieval and Modern Languages (University of Oxford)

2019: Semester abroad (Cornell University)

2018-2020: MA Comparative Literature (Goethe University Frankfurt)

2017: Semester abroad (University of Bergen)

2015-2018: BA Political Science and Scandinavian Studies (Goethe University Frankfurt)