Dr Sarah Pearce is a specialist academic editor, fiction editor, poetry editor, early career researcher and poet. Her research interests include poetry, Gothic literature, nineteenth-century women’s literature, feminist criticism and female embodiment. Her PhD focused on the suffering female body in the works of Emily and Charlotte Brontë, synthesising contemporary feminist theory and Gothic theory to provide an account of the multiple significances of the female body in canonical texts.

Dr Pearce’s scholarly and creative publications appear in Aeternum: The Journal of Contemporary Gothic Studies, Outskirts: Feminisms along the edge, Meniscus, Writing from Below, TEXT, The Suburban Review, Overland, Cordite and various anthologies. Her poetry has been taught in several Australian undergraduate Creative Writing courses, and she has been awarded multiple writing residencies. She has also peer reviewed various journal articles and books, co-edited special issues of Writing from Below and completed an internship at The Suburban Review.

Dr Pearce is deeply familiar with the publishing expectations for both scholarly and creative work, including the specific academic requirements for Honours, master’s and PhD theses. She is also highly experienced in developing and editing applications for academic employment, promotion and grant funding, having worked in the Flinders University Research Office as an ARC grant applications auditor and editor prior to joining Capstone Editing, where she has continued to excel in this area.

In addition to her editing expertise, Dr Pearce is an experienced presenter and performer, having presented her scholarly and creative work in a variety of forums across Australia and overseas. She is also experienced in teaching English to overseas students and has several years of experience teaching Linguistics and English Literature to undergraduate students at several universities, in addition to private tutoring.

Dr Pearce is an accomplished, flexible and professional editor whose broad-ranging research, publishing and editorial experience equips her to approach a variety of editing and teaching roles with sensitivity and rigour.