Dr Sara Read
Senior Lecturer in English in the School of Social Sciences and Humanities
Areas of expertise
Seventeenth-century culture and literature, early women's reproductive health and medicine, and historical fiction.
Profile
Sara's expertise is in seventeenth-century culture and literature. She specialises in women's reproductive health and medicine in early modern popular culture. She can speak on historical attitudes to menstruation, miscarriage, menopause, adolescence, pregnancy, and religion. She is also a historical novelist. She has appeared on tv such as BBC Countryfile and radio such as Women's Hour and Free Thinking. She writes for the press and history magazines about a range of topics connected to her research.
Interview booking
Please call the press office on +44 (0)1509 223491 to arrange an interview with Dr Sara Read. Bookings can also be made online at .
