Sarah Leggott
{{Short description|New Zealand literature academic}}
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| fields = Spanish literature, autobiography
| workplaces = Victoria University of Wellington
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| thesis1_title = Reinscribing the female historical subject : auto/biographical voices of contemporary Spanish women writers
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| doctoral_advisor = Christine Reta Arkinstall
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Sarah Janet Leggott (born 1970) is a New Zealand literature academic. She is currently a full professor at the Victoria University of Wellington.{{cite web|url= https://www.victoria.ac.nz/slc/about/staff/sarah-leggott|title=Sarah Leggott – School of Languages and Cultures – Victoria University of Wellington|website=www.victoria.ac.nz}}
Academic career
After a 1999 PhD titled 'Reinscribing the female historical subject: auto/biographical voices of contemporary Spanish women writers' at the University of Auckland,{{cite thesis |last=Leggott |first=Sarah |year=1999 |type=Doctoral thesis |title=Reinscribing the female historical subject : auto/biographical voices of contemporary Spanish women writers |publisher=ResearchSpace@Auckland, University of Auckland |hdl=2292/541}} she moved to the Victoria University of Wellington, rising to full professor. In December 2021, Leggott was appointed Acting Pro Vice-Chancellor for both the Wellington Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and the Wellington Faculty of Education. She will hold this role until a new vice-chancellor replaces Grant Guilford, who has retired.{{cite press release |author= |title=VUW names an acting vice-chancellor till it makes a permanent appointment |url= https://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=141501 |location=Wellington |publisher=Victoria University of Wellington |agency=Scoop |date=15 December 2021 |access-date=2022-06-19}}
Selected works
- Leggott, Sarah. History and autobiography in contemporary Spanish women's testimonial writings. Vol. 8. Edwin Mellen Press, 2001.
- Leggott, Sarah. "Memory, Postmemory, Trauma: The Spanish Civil War in Recent Novels by Women." (2009).
- Leggott, Sarah. Memory, War, and Dictatorship in Recent Spanish Fiction by Women. Bucknell University Press, 2015.Reviews of Memory, War, and Dictatorship in Recent Spanish Fiction by Women: Sandra J. Schumm, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, [https://www.proquest.com/docview/2039803068]; Jane Hanley, Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research, {{doi|10.1080/13260219.2015.1135853}}; Debra J. Ochoa, Cincinnati Romance Review, [http://www.cromrev.com/volumes/vol45/R05-Ochoa.pdf]; Lorraine Ryan, Bulletin of Spanish Studies, [https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/articulo?codigo=7230150]
- Leggott, Sarah. The Workings of Memory: Life-Writing by Women in Early Twentieth-Century Spain. Associated University Presse, 2008.Review of The Workings of Memory: Lilit Thwaites, Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research, {{doi|10.1080/13260219.2008.11742715}}
- Leggott, Sarah. "Re-membering Self and Nation: Memory and Life-Writing in Works by Josefina Aldecoa." Confluencia (2004): 11–20.
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Category:New Zealand women academics
Category:University of Auckland alumni
Category:Academic staff of Victoria University of Wellington
Category:New Zealand women writers
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