Sarah Willburn

Sarah Willburn serves as a Lecturer in the Department of Religious Studies at Stanford University.

Her primary research focuses span esoteric traditions and literary history, with emphasis on:

• Popular Mysticism as cultural phenomenon
• Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Spiritualism and Occult movements
• Intersections of British Literature with alternative religious expressions

Her scholarly work examines how mystical and occult traditions permeate mainstream culture through literary channels, particularly within British contexts across two centuries.