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Rebekah Mitsein is an Associate Professor and Assistant Chair/Director of Undergraduate Studies in the English Department at Boston College. Her research focuses on 17th- and 18th-century British and transatlantic literature, emphasizing how global crossroads shaped European thought. She authored African Impressions, which won the 2022 Walker Cowen Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the Kenshur Prize. Current projects include The True Story of the Abyssinian Liar (biography of James Bruce) and Gold Coast Metaphysics and the Matter of Spirit (African cosmologies' influence on Enlightenment).
Education: B.A. St. Cloud State University, M.A. Duquesne University, Ph.D. Purdue University.
Her research bridges colonial studies, global literature, and cultural geography. Articles explore African representation in Defoe, trans-Saharan influences in Behn, and Enlightenment's global connections. She emphasizes decolonizing pedagogy through teaching innovations like Teaching the Eighteenth Century Beyond the Pale.
Awards include prestigious recognition for her monograph, and her work spans peer-reviewed articles, edited volumes, and public humanities projects like The 18th-Century Common.
In addition to academic leadership roles, she contributes to scholarly communities through editorial work and conference presentations, focusing on expanding marginalized voices in early modern studies.
