Dr. Ramesh Mallipeddi

Biography

Ramesh Mallipeddi is an Associate Professor in the Department of English Language and Literatures at the University of British Columbia. He completed his Ph.D. at Cornell University in 2008. His research interests include Environmental Humanities, Restoration, and Eighteenth-Century Literatures. His published monograph, "Spectacular Suffering: Witnessing Slavery in the Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic," explores the complexities of slavery and capitalist abstraction. Mallipeddi has contributed articles to various scholarly works, including the Oxford Handbook of Migration Literature and has co-edited special issues on memory and climate change. He serves on the MLA Forum Executive Committee and is the editor of the journal Eighteenth-Century Studies. His current book project, "Settling Land: Racial Ecologies in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture, 1627-1834," investigates imperial expansion and environmental transformations. Mallipeddi's extensive scholarly contributions reflect a commitment to understanding the intersections of literature, history, and social justice.

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