Sara Fernandes

Sara Fernandes is a Lecturer in English and Theatre Studies at the University of Melbourne. She is interested in the literature of the long eighteenth century, with a focus on novel studies, skin, portability, and circulation.

Her doctoral thesis examined the ways in which medical discourse and scientific understanding and misunderstanding shaped attitudes towards human skin during the long eighteenth century in England, and how these in turn encoded the representation of character and the development of form and genre.

Her work has been published in European Romantic Review, New Literary History, Textual Practice, and Medical History.