Sarah Janet Leggott (born 1970) is a New Zealand literature academic.
She is currently a full professor at the Victoria University of Wellington.
[1] After a 1999 PhD titled 'Reinscribing the female historical subject: auto/biographical voices of contemporary Spanish women writers' at the University of Auckland,[2] she moved to the Victoria University of Wellington, rising to full professor.
[1] In December 2021, Leggott was appointed Acting Pro Vice-Chancellor for both the Wellington Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and the Wellington Faculty of Education.
She will hold this role until a new vice-chancellor replaces Grant Guilford, who has retired.