Sarah Bliss is a Ph.D. Candidate in Literature, Media and Culture at Florida State University, where she is completing her dissertation project on Victorian detective fiction and periodical culture. Her research focuses on the relationship of genre fiction and book history, and pairs training from Rare Books School at the University of Virginia with a range of fiction, from 18th century Gothic plays to crime writing in the fin de siècle. At FSU, Sarah teaches classes in literature and the history of text technologies, where she facilitates an interdisciplinary approach to books that recognizes them as both texts and objects.
A military kid, Sarah grew up moving around frequently, and she came to Tallahassee after completing her M.A in Romantic and Victorian Literature at the University of Bristol, where she developed a great love for gigantic museums, detective novels, and hot chocolate.