Sara Haslam

Sara Haslam is Senior Lecturer in English at the Open University. She has written material for modules at all levels of study, and soon after joining the department she also worked as an Associate Lecturer, teaching the MA.

Her research is focused on the British novelist Ford Madox Ford, on the literature of the First World War, and on scholarly editing. She spends a lot of time poring over manuscripts and deciding if an ellipsis of 8 dots should be reduced to 3 in a published edition. Meeting Benedict Cumberbatch when he was playing Christopher Tietjens in Parade’s End has been her only voluntary experience of a golf course. Her research and teaching have been happily merged in production of A335, a new module for which she has written teaching material on The Good Soldier, Ford’s modernist classic.

She is Chair of the Ford Madox Ford Society, and in her spare time she runs, plays the piano, and drives her children to activities she wishes they could walk to.