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Ramesh Mallipeddi is an Associate Professor in the Department of English Language and Literatures at the University of British Columbia's Faculty of Arts. He serves as editor of Eighteenth-Century Studies, the flagship journal of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS), and previously served on the MLA Forum Executive Committee on Restoration and Early-18th-Century English Literature (2019-2024).
His research focuses on critical intersections of Critical Race Studies, Black Studies, Environmental Humanities, and Science and Technology Studies within the context of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literatures. His work examines transatlantic slavery, the British empire, democracy, political rights, migration, labor, and environmental transformation in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world. Mallipeddi's scholarship reveals how enslaved African people contended with capitalist abstraction and produced counterdiscourses on slavery.
His publications demonstrate a clear trajectory from studying slavery and sentimentalism toward examining racial ecologies, land use, and environmental transformation in the plantation economy. Recent work increasingly focuses on infrastructure, soil management, and agricultural tools as sites where racial hierarchies were constructed and contested. His current book project, Settling the Land: Racial Ecologies in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture, 1627-1834, represents the culmination of this scholarly evolution.
Mallipeddi has delivered significant academic presentations, including as a plenary speaker at the Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies annual meeting in Montreal (Fall 2023) and an upcoming lecture in the Georgia Colloquium in 18th and 19th Century Literature (Fall 2025).
His educational background includes a Ph.D. from Cornell University (2008), which provided the foundation for his specialized expertise in eighteenth-century British literature and its connections to empire, slavery, and environmental history.
