Sarah Winters
Associate Professor

Dr. Sarah Winters

Positions

Full-time Faculty
Faculty of Arts and Science - Fine Arts and English Studies - English Studies

Education

PhD, English Literature, University of Toronto
1999
MA, English Literature, University of Otago
1993
BA, English Literature, University of Otago
1992
Areas of specialization
Children's Literature
Religion and Literature
Fantasy

Current University Committees & Engagement

  • Senator
  • NUFA Communications Committee

Teaching Areas

Undergraduate Programs

  • English Studies

Research

Research Interests

  • British high fantasy after WWII
  • J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, J.K. Rowling, Philip Pullman

Current Research Projects / Labs

  • "No Elsewhere": Transcendence and Immanence in Philip Pullman's Dust Books
  • Monograph in progress

Open to Media Inquiries

Publications

Books 

Winters, Sarah Fiona. Evil in the Christian Fantasy of C.S. Lewis and J.K. Rowling: From the White Witch to the Dark Mark.  Lexington, 2025.  

Radia, Pavlina, Sarah Fiona Winters, and Laurie Kruk. Eds.  The Future of Humanity: Revisioning the Human in a Posthuman Age.  Rowman & Littlefield, 2019.  

Hale, Elizabeth and Sarah Fiona Winters. Eds.  Marvellous Codes: The Fiction of Margaret Mahy.  Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2005. 

 Selected Articles / Chapters 

Winters, Sarah Fiona.  “Camping Out on the Quest: The Landscape of Boredom in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.  Children’s Literature and Imaginative Geography.  Ed. Aida Hudson.  Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2018. 193-206. 

Winters, Sarah Fiona.  “Streaming Scholarship: Using Fan Vids to teach Harry Potter.”  Children’s Literature in Education 45.3 (2014): 239-54. 

Winters, Sarah Fiona.  “Vidding and the Perversity of Critical Pleasure: Sex, Violence, and Voyeurism in ‘Closer’ and ‘On the Prowl.’”  Transformative Works and Cultures 9 (2012). 

Winters, Sarah Fiona.  “Religious Faith and Secular Hope in The Underland Chronicles.”  The Lion and the Unicorn 36.1 (2012): 1-19. 

Winters, Sarah Fiona.  “Bubble-Wrapped Children and Safe Books for Boys: The Politics of Parenting in Harry Potter.”  Children’s Literature 39 (2011):  213-33.  

Winters, Sarah Fiona.  “From Satan to Hitler: Theological and Historical Evil in C.S. Lewis, Philip Pullman, and J.K. Rowling.” Monsters in the Mirror: Representations of Nazism in Post-War Popular Culture. Ed. Sarah Buttsworth and Maartje Abbenhuis. Praeger, 2020. 53-74.