Sadie McDonald

Biography

Sadie McDonald is an MA student in the Department of English Literature and Creative Writing. She has a Bachelor of Arts in English from Trinity Western University, and she is an alumna of the SCIO Summer Programme, where she studied as an associate member of Wycliffe Hall at the University of Oxford. 

Her primary research interest focuses on the marginalization of the “Other” in the Gothic novel and how it reflects nineteenth-century cultural anxieties surrounding religion, gender, race, and disability. 

Outside of her academic work, she has worked as a journalist for the past four years, writing and editing for magazines. Sadie is from British Columbia and has a bernedoodle named Scout.

Research Interests

Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature; The Gothic novel; The Inklings; George MacDonald; The Pre-Raphaelites

Selected Publications

McDonald, Sadie. "He That Will Be a Hero, Will Barely Be a Man: Other-Worldliness As the Ascent to Spiritual Maturity in Phantastes." 2025, https://twu.arcabc.ca/kouwenberg-endowment-scholarship-papers/he-will-be-hero-will-barely-be-man-other-worldliness-ascent.

Awards and Recognition

The Rev. Dr. Hans and Colleen Kouwenberg Endowment Scholarship (2025)