Sarah Weston

Sarah Weston is an Assistant Professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis, with an affiliation in the Art History & Archaeology Department. Her research and teaching intersect literature, art, and science, focusing on Romanticism, the history of science/mathematics, and digital humanities. She holds a Ph.D. from Yale University and advanced degrees from Stanford and Cambridge.

**Education**:

• B.A., English and Art History, Stanford University (2014)
• M.Phil., Eighteenth-Century and Romantic Literature, University of Cambridge (2015)
• Ph.D., English and History of Art, Yale University (2023)

**Research**: She explores the interplay between arts and sciences, including Romantic-era literature/mathematics, environmental humanities, and book history. Current projects include two books on Romantic numeracy and a digital humanities initiative, BlakeTint, analyzing William Blake’s use of color.

**Awards & Grants**: Supported by institutions like the Huntington Library and Yale’s Center for British Art. Received the Fred Strebeigh Teaching Prize at Yale.

**Creative Work**: A poet and printmaker, she replicates 19th-century techniques, including etching Blake’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience using artisanal methods. Teaches courses blending arts and sciences, such as Earth, Sky, Stardust: Literature and the Cosmos.