Monographs
Bull, Sarah. Selling Sexual Knowledge: Medical Publishing and Obscenity in Victorian Britain. Cambridge University Press, 2025. DOI: 10.1017/9781009578103. Finalist for the SHARP Book History Book Prize.

Edited Volumes
Bull, Sarah. Pornography and Science. Vol. II of a four-volume series, Nineteenth-Century British Pornography: Sources and Materials. Series editor: Lisa Z. Sigel. Routledge. In Press. Forthcoming Fall 2026.

Edited Journal Issues
Bull, Sarah and Agata Ignaciuk. Sex, Science, and Censorship. Special issue of the Journal of the History of Sexuality, vol. 33, no. 1, 2024.

Journal Articles
Bull, Sarah. “From the Center of Flash Print Culture to the Edge of the Classifieds: What Periodical Advertising Data Tell Us About the Victorian Pornography Trade.” Victorian Periodicals Review. In Press. Forthcoming Fall 2026.

Bull, Sarah. “Content Generation in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.” Book History vol. 26, no. 2, 2023, pp. 324-361. DOI: 10.1353/bh.2023.a910951.

Bull, Sarah. “More than a Case of Mistaken Identity: Adult Entertainment and the Making of Early Sexology.” History of the Human Sciences vol. 34, no. 1, 2021,  pp. 10-39. DOI: 10.1177/0952695120903954.

Bull, Sarah. “Managing the ‘Obscene M.D.’: Medical Publishing, the Medical Profession, and the Changing Definition of Obscenity in Mid-Victorian England.” Bulletin of the History of Medicine vol. 91, no. 4, 2017, pp. 713-743. DOI: 10.1353/bhm.2017.0079.

Bull, Sarah. “Reading, Writing, and Publishing an Obscene Canon: The Archival Logic of the Secret Museum, c. 1860 — c. 1900.” Book History vol 20, 2017, pp. 226-257. DOI: 10.1353/bh.2017.0007.

Colligan, Colette, Michael Joyce, Sarah Bull and Cecile Loyen. “Humanities Research  Software Design: The Wilde Trials Web App.” Scholarly Research and Communication vol. 7, no. 2, 2016, 15pp. DOI: 10.22230/src.2016v7n2/3a256.

Bull, Sarah. “Digital Archives and the History of Pornography.” Porn Studies vol. 1, no.  4, 2014, pp. 402-405. DOI: 10.1080/23268743.2014.947753.

Bull, Sarah. “A Purveyor of Garbage? Charles Carrington and the Marketing of Sexual Science in Late-Victorian Britain.” Victorian Review vol. 38, no. 1, 2012, pp. 55-76. DOI: 10.1353/vcr.2012.0028. Awarded the Victorian Review Surridge Prize.

Peer Reviewed Reference Articles 
Bull, Sarah. “Sexual Knowledge in Print Culture.” Victorian Web. Published August 15, 2022. Part of the Great Expectations Pregnancy Project, edited by Mary Elizabeth Leighton and Lisa Surridge (University of Victoria) and funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

Bull, Sarah. “1001 Nights/Arabian Nights.” Global Encyclopaedia of Gay,  Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer History, ed. Howard Chiang. New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 2018.

Peer Reviewed Digital Projects
Bull, Sarah. Advertising Pornography, 1822–1870 [Peer Reviewed Data Set]. 2026. Distributed by Nineteenth Century Data Collective. DOI: 10.34770/9xd0-3p75. Contains an interoperable pair of datasets derived from advertising material associated with the nineteenth-century pornography trade, documentation for dating and attributing a collection of sales catalogues, and an essay on the package's creation, methodology, uses, and limitations.

Other Digital Projects

Bull, Sarah. “Mapping Nineteenth Century Obscenity.” 2026. An interactive map illustrating the addresses of sellers of obscene material in nineteenth-century Britain, using historical map layers from the National Library of Scotland and an underlying dataset with georeferenced address data. github.com/sarahebull/C19obscenitymap.

Bull, Sarah and Dan Williams. “Text-Duplicates: Copying in 19th Century Sexual Health Books.” Historical text comparison program and online demonstration. Created for Wellcome Data Week, 2016. This was archived at <ghp.wellcomecollection.org/text-duplicates/> but the link is no longer active and it likely doesn't exist anymore, unfortunately.

Colligan, Colette, Michael Joyce, Sarah Bull, Cécile Loyen, et al. Wilde Trials International News Archive. Digital Humanities Innovation Lab, Simon Fraser University, 2014–present. wilde.dhil.lib.sfu.ca. Public scholarly resource gathering international news coverage of Oscar Wilde’s three trials (April–December 1895). Contributed as a Research Associate, 2014–2015.