Faculty & Staff
Sara Malton
Associate Dean, Professor
Phone: 902-496-8137
Office: MN 330
Email: sara.malton@smu.ca
Overview
Sara Malton specializes in nineteenth-century literature, especially the intersection
of fiction, finance, law and cultural memory. My interests also include consumer and
commodity culture as well as the relationship between literature, technology, and
modernity.
After receiving my PhD in English from the University of Toronto in 2004, I went on
to a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship at Cornell University. I thereafter joined the
Department of English at Saint Mary’s in 2005. In addition to teaching in the English
Department at Saint Mary’s, I also have served on thesis committees in the Sobey
School of Business (PhD in Management) and at Dalhousie University where I am an
Adjunct Professor. I am a current Trustee of the Dickens Society and recently
hosted the 20th Annual Dickens Society Symposium at Saint Mary’s in July, 2015.
Teaching
Courses 2015-16
- English 2205 — Introduction to the Practice of Criticism
- English 2303 — Fictions of Finance
- English 3481 — The Nineteenth-Century British Novel I
- English 3482 — The Nineteenth-Century British Novel II
Courses that I regularly teach
- English 3484 — Victorian Poetry & Prose II
- English 4485 — Advanced Victorian Studies – Literature, Technology and Visual Culture
- Honours Seminars: The Forged & The Authentic in Nineteenth Century Culture Law, Lawlessness & Nineteenth Century Cultural Memory
Selected Publications
My work has appeared in such journals as Studies in the Novel, Victorian Literature
and Culture, the European Romantic Review, and English Studies in Canada, and
Nineteenth Century Studies. My book Forgery in Nineteenth Century Literature and
Culture: Fictions of Finance from Dickens to Wilde was published by Palgrave-
Macmillan in 2009.
Selected Awards and Research Projects
2011 – 2015 SSHRC Standard Faculty Research Grant for book project, “Rough
Waters: Naval Impressment and Nineteenth-Century Cultural
Memory”
2015 SMU Faculty of Graduate Studies & Research Grant for “Victorian Women
Writers and the American Civil War”