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Sara S. Poor

Sara S. Poor

· Associate Professor

Princeton University · German

Active 1990–2026

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About

Sara S. Poor, also known as Sally, is an Associate Professor of German at Princeton University. She received her PhD from Duke University’s Graduate Program in Literature and has held academic positions at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg and Stanford University before joining Princeton in September 2002. Her primary research interests include Gender Studies and medieval German literature, which are prominently reflected in her teaching and scholarly work. Professor Poor's first book, 'Mechthild of Magdeburg and Her Book: Gender and the Making of Textual Authority,' published in 2004, was awarded the Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship’s 2006 Prize for the best first book on a medieval feminist topic and the 2008 Medieval Academy of America John Nicholas Brown Prize for the best first book on a medieval subject. Her current project, 'The Literary Agency of Medieval Women: Kunigund Niklasin and the Library of St. Catherine’s in Nuremberg,' is forthcoming from Oxford University Press in 2026. Her research has been supported by notable fellowships, including a National Humanities Center Fellowship and an Old Dominion Professorship at Princeton. In addition to her research, Professor Poor is actively involved in mentoring graduate students and colleagues, co-founding medieval graduate colloquia and an association of American medievalists, YMAGINA, which has been reconfigured as the Medieval and Early Modern German Studies network. She also convenes a writing support group for post-Generals students across disciplines. Her scholarly contributions include editing collections of essays on gender, mysticism, reform, and medieval epic, further emphasizing her dedication to advancing the study of medieval German literature and culture.

Research topics

  • Sociology
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Social Science
  • Philosophy
  • History
  • Political Science
  • Art
  • Computer Science
  • Psychology
  • Literature
  • Law
  • Communication
  • Theology
  • Linguistics
  • Epistemology

Selected publications

Frequent coauthors

  • Jana K. Schulman

    4 shared

  • Alison Beringer

    Montclair State University

    3 shared

  • Olga V. Trokhimenko

    3 shared

  • Nigel Smith

    2 shared

  • Nigel Smith

    1 shared

  • Miriam Hansen

    Goethe University Frankfurt

    1 shared

  • Carolyne Larrington

    University of Oxford

    1 shared

  • Hildegard Elisabeth Keller

    1 shared

Awards & honors

  • Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship’s 2006 Prize for t…
  • Medieval Academy of America John Nicholas Brown Prize (2008)
  • National Humanities Center Fellowship (2017–2018)
  • Old Dominion Professorship in Princeton University’s Humanit…
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