We welcome our 2024 CIRAC Fellow Dr. Sarah Falcus!

Sarah Falcus's research is in contemporary women's writing, feminism, and literary gerontology. She is the Primary Collaborator on the project 'Ageing and Illness in British and Japanese Children's Picturebooks 1950-2000: Historical and Cross-Cultural Perspectives', funded by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. She is also the co-director of the Dementia and Cultural Narrative Network. Her recent publications include Contemporary Narratives of Dementia: Ethics, Ageing, Politics, Contemporary Narratives of Ageing, Illness, Care (both co-edited with Katsura Sako), Age and Ageing in Contemporary Speculative and Science Fiction (co-edited with Maricel Oró-Piqueras) and The Bloomsbury Handbook to Ageing in Contemporary Literature and Film (co-edited with Raquel Medina and Heike Hartung).