Sara van den Berg

Sara van den Berg's research and teaching focus on three areas: Seventeenth-Century English Literature, especially the works of Ben Jonson and John Milton; Disability Studies, with special emphasis on the cultural meanings of disability; and Medical Humanities, with special emphasis on the problem of pain. She is interested in the experience of mind and body in the Early Modern era, and she draws on the methods of psychoanalytic object relations theory, disability theory, historical scholarship, narrative theory, and close reading.