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).