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

ORamesh Mallipeddi is 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 current book project, Settling the Earth: Racial Ecologies in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture, 1627–1834 is, in his words, “a study of the conjoined histories of changing practices of land use, imperial expansion, and environmental transformations.”

rganized by the Georgia Colloquium for Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Literature. Sponsored by the Willson Center for the Arts and Humanities and by the English Department's Rodney Baine Fund.