Department Faculty
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Kari J. Winter Director of Undergraduate Studies |
Education
Ph.D. in English. University of Minnesota, 1990.
B.A. with honors in English and History. Indiana University, 1981.
Areas of Specialization
Kari Winter's research centers on two areas of investigation: 1) human quests for physical well-being; the ways oppression is written on the body through trauma, deprivation, violence, and degradation; how oppressed peoples attempt to endure and to affirm the value of their bodies; 2) human quests for intellectual freedom and social change; the roles of literacy, art, education, economics, and sexual desire in oppression and in liberation; connections between freedom and acts of self-narration, articulations of desire, rituals of mourning, political movements and other forms of healing and empowerment.
Books
Possessions: An Intimate History of John B. Prentis, Slave-Trader. Under review.
What’s New About Slavery? Human Trafficking and the Commodification of Life. Co-edited with David Castillo. Under review.
The Blind African Slave: or, Memoirs of Boyrereau Brinch, Nick-named Jeffrey Brace. New edition of an 1810 slave narrative, with an introduction, historical annotations, and appendices. Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography Series. University of Wisconsin Press, 2005.
Subjects of Slavery, Agents of Change: Women and Power in Gothic Novels and Slave Narratives, 1790-1865. University of Georgia Press, 1992.
Recent Journal Articles and Book Chapters
“Slaves Under the Driveway? Exhuming Buried History in Milford and Southbury,
Connecticut.” Connecticut Review 30.2 (2008): 63-72.
“Jeffrey Brace in Barbados: Slavery, Interracial Relationships, and
the Emergence of a Global Economy.” Nineteenth-Century Contexts 29. 2-3 (2007): 111-125. Reprinted in Nineteenth-Century Worlds: Global Formations
Past and Present, eds. Greg Kucich and Keith Hanley. Routledge, 2008. 39-53.
“Bordering Freedom but Unable to Cross into the Promised Land: Africans
in Early Vermont.” Historical Reflections / Réflexions Historiques 32.3 (2006): 473-92.
“The Hogshards of Bridgetown: A Case Study of a Free Colored Family
in Eighteenth-Century Barbados.” Journal of the Barbados Museum
and Historical Society 158 (2002): 29-42. Co-authored with Pedro Welch.
“The Politics and Erotics of Food in Louise Erdrich.” Studies
in American Indian Literature 12.4 (2000): 44-64.
Recent Courses Taught
Human Trafficking
Slavery in the Americas: History
and Literature
The Slave Narrative Tradition in African American Literature
Antebellum America
Contemporary American Indian Literature
Writing Lives: Studies in Genre and Voice
Witch Hunts in American History
Louise Erdrich, American Indian History, and Contemporary Critical Theory
American Pluralism
Selected Professional Activities
Advisory Board for Program in Caribbean Studies, UB, 2007-present
Gender Institute Executive Committee, UB, 2006-present
Advisory Board, Antislavery Literature Project based at Arizona State University, 2005-present
Editorial Board, a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, 1994-present
Humanities Institute Executive Committee, UB, 2005-09
Co-Organizer, Humanities Institute Conference on Human Trafficking, UB, October 2007
Chair, Gender Week 2007 (10th Anniversary
Celebration of UB's Gender Institute)
National Endowment for the Humanities
Review Panelist for Collaborative Research Fellowships, 2006
Ford Foundation Fellowship Review Panelist, 1998-2004
Advisory Committee, Public Media Foundation, Boston. 1992-2000.
Recent Awards and Grants
Humanities Institute Faculty Research Fellowship, SUNY at Buffalo. 2008-09.
Gender Institute Service Award,
SUNY at Buffalo. 2007.
Canadian-American Studies Committee Research Grant. SUNY at Buffalo. 2006-07.
Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy Research Grant. SUNY at Buffalo. 2005-06.
Invited by the Chinese Government (Zhejiang Province) to participate as their
guest in an international literary conference and tour. May 19-30, 2005.
Certificate of Recognition for Positive Influence on Students. Presented by
Division of Student Affairs. SUNY at Buffalo, 2005.