Sarah Edge moved to Northern Ireland in 1991 and became a Professor of Photography and Cultural Studies at Ulster University since 2011 (later Emeritus). She has published in the area of gender studies and nationalism in the context of conflict in Ireland and Postfeminism and film. She is also a practising photographic artist. Her passion is early Victorian photography and the construction of class and gender.  Routledge published her well-received monograph The Extraordinary Archive of Arthur J. Munby: Photographing Class and Gender in the Nineteenth Century in 2017.  She currently lives in Belfast and Wexford and is working on a number of projects.

During the 1980s she was part of the curating team at Rochdale Art Gallery, was a member of the Feminist Art News Collective. She was a practising photographic and performance artist as well as an independent exhibitions curator. In 1990 she co-curated the touring exhibition Along The Lines of Resistance: An exhibition of contemporary Feminist Art.

Sarah Edge: image from Traces of Traces: An Exploration of the Albums of William McKinney Exhibition @ Fort Dunree Donegal 11th June - 24th July 2011