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Sarah Winter is a Professor in the Department of Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Connecticut. She serves as Co-Director of the Graduate Program in Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies and leads the faculty study group on Refugees, Narratives, and Media at the UConn Human Rights Institute. She holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Yale University and a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley.
Her research explores interdisciplinary connections between literature, law, and human rights, with expertise in Victorian literature, cultural history, novel studies, Darwinism, Freudian theory, and rhetoric. Her current book project examines habeas corpus jurisprudence and abolitionist writings to trace the development of human rights concepts through literary representations of political prisoners and fugitive slaves.
Winter's publications demonstrate consistent focus on Victorian cultural studies, psychoanalytic theory, and interdisciplinary methodologies bridging literature with science and law. Her award-winning work analyzes Darwin's scientific texts through semiotic frameworks.
Honors include:
- Donald Gray Prize (2009) for top Victorian studies article
- Human Rights Institute Faculty Fellowship (2012)
She teaches courses in Victorian literature, classical rhetoric, the modern novel, and literature/human rights. She regularly presents at international conferences including the Dickens Project and North American Victorian Studies Association.
