Sarah Weston

Sarah Weston is an Assistant Professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis, affiliated with the Art History & Archaeology Department. She holds a B.A. from Stanford University (2014), an M.Phil from the University of Cambridge (2015), and a Ph.D. from Yale University (2023), with certificates in Environmental Humanities, Film & Media Studies, and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.

Her research bridges literature, art, and science, focusing on Romanticism, the history of science/mathematics, and intersections between arts and sciences. She leads digital humanities projects like BlakeTint, explores book history through artisanal printmaking, and publishes in journals like The Wordsworth Circle and European Romantic Review. Her current book projects, The Cypher and The Abyss and Wild Form, examine Romantic-era numeracy and aesthetics.

Weston is a recipient of the Fred Strebeigh & Linda H. Peterson Prize for Teaching Excellence and has been supported by grants from the Huntington Library, Paul Mellon Centre, and others. Her creative work includes replicating 19th-century print techniques to produce her own Songs of Innocence and of Experience using Blake’s methods. She teaches interdisciplinary courses such as “Earth, Sky, Stardust: Literature and the Cosmos” and integrates creative practice into her pedagogy.