Sarah E. Winter

Sarah E. Winter is an American Scholar of Literature, currently Professor of English at the University of Connecticut.[1] She is also Director of the Research Program on Humanitarianism at the Human Rights Institute at the University of Connecticut.[2]

Winter grew up in Santa Barbara, California where she was involved in honors society and dance in high school.[3] She then earned her B.A. in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Berkeley, and her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Yale University.[4] After teaching as Assistant Professor and then Associate Professor at Yale University, she accepted a call to the University of Connecticut as Associate Professor in 2002 and was promoted to Professor in 2012.[4]

Her research focuses on nineteenth-century British literature and history, Sigmund Freud, Charles Darwin, and the History of Education. Her article Darwin’s Saussure: Biosemiotics and Race in Expression won the Donald Gray Prize of the North American Victorian Studies Association in 2009 for the best essay in the field of Victorian Studies.[5]

Selected publications
  • Sarah Winter, "Domestic Fictions: Feminine Deference and Maternal Shadow Labor in Dickens' Little Dorrit." Dickens Studies Annual 18 (1990): pp. 243–54.
  • Sarah Winter, "Mental Culture: Liberal Pedagogy and the Emergence of Ethnographic Knowledge." Victorian Studies 41 (Spring 1998, published in 1999): pp. 427–54
  • Sarah Winter, Freud and the Institution of Psychoanalytic Knowledge (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999).
  • Sarah Winter, "Cultural Politics and the Sociology of the University." The Yale Journal of Criticism 18 (Fall 2005): pp. 473–78.
  • Sarah Winter, "Darwin’s Saussure: Biosemiotics and Race in Expression." Representations 107 (Summer 2009): pp. 128–61.
  • Sarah Winter, The Pleasures of Memory: Learning to Read with Charles Dickens (Fordham University Press, 2011).
  • Sarah Winter, et al. (co-editor), From Political Economy to Economics through Nineteenth-Century Literature: Reclaiming the Social (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, forthcoming).

References
  1. Winter, Sarah (7 April 2014). "Sarah Winter | Department of English". University of Connecticut.
  2. "Sarah Winter | Human Rights Institute". University of Connecticut. 18 January 2019.
  3. Crown and Sceptre (San Marcos High School Yearbook) 1979, p. 65; Crown and Sceptre (San Marcos High School Yearbook) 1980, p. 106
  4. "Sarah Winter CV" (PDF). University of Connecticut. March 2019.
  5. "Donald Gray Prize | NAVSA". www.navsa.org.
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