Elizabeth Sarah Coles

Elizabeth Sarah Coles (she/her) is the author of Anne Carson: The Glass Essayist (Oxford University Press, 2023), winner of the 2024 Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism. Her other honors include a T.R. Henn Prize for English and a Wood-Whistler Medal and Scholarship, both from the University of Cambridge, and a Gradiva Award for her coedited volume, Wild Analysis: From the Couch to Cultural and Political Life (Routledge, 2021).

Coles earned an MA and a master’s of philosophy at the University of Cambridge and a PhD at Queen Mary, University of London. She was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona from 2021-2024, and is the director of Performing the Lecture, a program of lecture-performances held in partnership with Barcelona’s Centre Cultura Contemporània.