People on the Move, Frontiers in Motion: Migration in the British Atlantic

A guest lecture by Professor Ramesh Mallipeddi, Associate Professor of English at the University of British Columbia and Editor of the journal Eighteenth-Century Studies. He is the author of Spectacular Suffering: Witnessing Slavery in the Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic (Virginia, 2016), articles in venues like Eighteenth-Century Studies, The Eighteenth-Century: Theory and Interpretation, and ELH, as well as essays in edited collections such as The People: Belonging, Exclusion, and Democracy (Cambridge 2025) and Emergent Nation: Early Modern British Literature in Transition (Cambridge 2019). His talk derives from his current book project, Settling the Earth: Racial Ecologies in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture, 1627–1834.

Dr. Mallipeddi's lecture is supported by the Colloquium in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century British Literature, the Willson Center for the Humanities and Arts, and the English Department’s Rodney Baine Lecture Fund. The lecture is free and open to the public. It will be followed by a reception in the Park Hall Library.