Sara Kitzinger

Biography

Raised in St. Louis, Missouri, Dr. Sara Kitzinger worked for the U.S. House of Representatives after her undergraduate career and later crossed the pond to complete her Ph.D. at the University of St. Andrews, UK. She was awarded the Earhart Fellowship and the Western Civilization Fellowship for her doctoral research. For the past sixteen years, she has taught Humanities at Thomas More College of Liberal Arts, ranging from Rousseau and Austen to Newman and Walker Percy. She has long taught and studied the American Republic and its British religious and political roots.

She has written for Crisis Magazine, Communitas, and contributed to the volume Religion and the State: Europe and North America in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (Lexington Press), and been an invited speaker for Roger Williams University, the Russell Kirk Center, and the Milk Street Society. Dr. Kitzinger’s intellectual interests include German Romanticism, Anglo-American conservative thought, law and virtue in Jane Austen, the Tennessee Agrarians and Southern realism, the intellectual history of natural rights, the notion of kingship, and the crisis of community in the modern age.

She is a lover of all things merry and a happy defender of etiquette and hospitality. She was previously trained in opera and remains a Mozart aria enthusiast. She is a proud, unlikely homeschooling mother of three boys. With such lively company, she and her husband Denis reside in Nashua, New Hampshire.