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]