Kari Winter

Kari J. Winter is a UB Professor of Global Gender and Sexuality Studies.  Winter’s research interests include the histories of slavery, resistance and revolution; anglophone literature and history from the eighteenth century to the present, with particular attention to gender, race and class.

Winter is an affiliate faculty of English, a past Director of the UB Gender Institute (2011-17) and Executive Director of the UB Humanities Institute (interim, 2017-18). Her books include The American Dreams of John B. Prentis, Slave Trader, The Blind African Slave: or, Memoirs of Boyrereau Brinch, Nick-named Jeffrey Brace, and Subjects of Slavery, Agents of Change: Women and Power in Gothic Novels and Slave Narratives, 1790-1865.

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