Dr Sarah Comyn

Principal Investigator

Sarah Comyn is an Assistant Professor and Ad Astra Fellow in the School of English, Drama and Film at University College Dublin. Her research interests are in the transhistorical and transnational narratives concerning literary value and culture, settler colonial literature, literary institutions, and the nineteenth-century literary cultures of mineral mining. Recent and forthcoming publications include Political Economy and the Novel: A Literary History of “Homo Economicus” (Palgrave, 2018), Early Public Libraries and Colonial Citizenship in the British Southern Hemisphere (Palgrave, 2019; with Lara Atkin, Porscha Fermanis and Nathan Garvey), and Worlding the South: Nineteenth-Century Literary Culture and the Southern Settler Colonies (Manchester University Press, 2021; ed. with Porscha Fermanis). Dr Comyn is currently working on WP 2 – Mineral Regimes: a commodity-comparative study that examines the impact of copper, diamond and gold mining on nineteenth-century settler colonial literary cultures.