Sarah Wood (1) (1963–)

I took my DPhil at Oxford where I was Denise Skinner Senior Scholar and worked under the supervision of Daniel Karlin. I came to Kent in 2002 from a job at Mansfield College, Oxford. My first book was on Robert Browning, and thinking about poetry remains fundamental to my research. Recent essays draw on literature, philosophy and the arts, including readings of Hélène Cixous, Shakespeare, Derrida, Freud, Milton, Husserl, Wallace Stevens, Robert Browning, Louise Bourgeois, Kant, Paul de Man, Picasso, Raymond Carver, Plato, Elizabeth Bowen and Leo Bersani. I have edited Deconstruction and Poetry, Writing and Immortality, Hotel Psychoanalysis and Home and Family, and co-written Blue Guitar, a creative-critical book, with the poet Jonathan Tiplady. My guide to Derrida's Writing and Difference came out with Continuum in 2009 and I am currently writing a book about literature, deconstruction and human weakness, contracted with Edinburgh University Press.