Sara E Atwood

Sara Atwood teaches literature and writing at Portland State University and Pacific Northwest College of Art. She also leads Delve literary seminars for Portland Literary Arts. Her academic work has been published in Nineteenth-Century Prose, The Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies, and Carlyle Studies Annual. She is the author of Ruskin’s Educational Ideals and has contributed essays to a number of books, including the Yale University Press edition of Carlyle’s On Heroes, Hero Worship, and the Heroic in History, Teaching Victorian Literature in the Twenty-First Century, John Ruskin and Nineteenth-Century Education, and the Cambridge Companion to William Morris. She has lectured widely, both in the US and abroad, focusing particularly on education, the environment, and language. Her creative work has appeared in the Buckman Journal and other publications. She is a Companion of the Guild of St George and a board member of the Ruskin Art Club of Los Angeles.