Kari J. Winter is a professor of American Studies in the Department of Global Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University at Buffalo whose research focuses on the history and literature of transatlantic slavery and resistance. 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 (first scholarly edition of a long-lost 1810 slave narrative); and Subjects of Slavery, Agents of Change: Women and Power in Gothic Novels and Slave Narratives, 1790–1865. She also has published dozens of essays in the fields of African American, American Indian, and global women’s studies.  Deeply committed to public history and social justice, she has lectured at more than eighty venues on four continents.