Sara Malton, Saint Mary's University

Research

Medicine Religion Literature History Anorexia Martyrdom Hagiography Catholicism

Latest funding

Wondrous Hunger: Salvation, Starvation and the Nineteenth-Century "Fasting Girl"
SSHRC · 2020 · Principal investigator
$20,936
Rough waters naval impressment and 19th-century cultural memory
SSHRC · 2011 · Principal investigator
$38,399

Wondrous Hunger: Salvation, Starvation and the Nineteenth-Century "Fasting Girl"

Principal investigatorSSHRC2020Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Malton, Sara

Keywords: Medicine; Religion; Literature; History; Anorexia; Martyrdom; Hagiography; Catholicism; Apparitions; Spectacle

$20,936

Rough waters naval impressment and 19th-century cultural memory

Principal investigatorSSHRC2011

Principal investigators: Malton, Sara A.

Keywords: nineteenth century literature and culture; law and literature; legal history; cultural history; military history; national identity; theories of history and cultural memory; naval impressment; Dickens; Gaskell; Hardy; Melville

$38,399

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

Write to this professor

A short, specific email works best. This draft uses one of their recent papers; replace the parts in brackets with your own details before sending.

Applying for

Mention their SSHRC grant from 2020

Subject: Prospective PhD student: Medicine Dear Professor Malton, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. Your research on medicine connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your SSHRC-funded project "Wondrous Hunger: Salvation, Starvation and the Nineteenth-Century "Fasting Girl"" (2020), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]