Dr. Sarah Bull

Biography:

My research focuses on print culture and the history of the book. My first book, Selling Sexual Knowledge: Medical Publishing and Obscenity in Victorian Britain, focused on the practices and politics of selling medical books on sexual matters in nineteenth-century Britain. That work was supported by awards from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the Wellcome Trust. Funded by an Insight Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, my current book project, Manufacturing Literature, examines the practices and politics of compiling books in the nineteenth century Anglophone world. Additionally, I am working on a series of datasets and articles focused on the history of the British pornography trade and the enforcement of obscenity laws to 1900.