Kerry Sinanan

Title: Assistant Professor
Phone: 204-786-9284
Office: 2A29
Email: k.sinanan@uwinnipeg.ca

Biography:

Kerry Sinanan is Assistant Professor in Global pre-1800 Literature and Culture. She specializes in the Black Atlantic, Caribbean slavery and race, and the global dimensions of Black resistance and abolition up to the present. Her monograph, “Myths of Mastery: Traders, Planters and Colonial Agents, 1750-1834,” examines the writings in various genres by slave traders and slave owners from the mid-eighteenth century up to British emancipation (1834). I am under contract with Broadview Press to produce a new edition of The History of Mary Prince (1831). As an Anti-racist pedagogy practitioner she runs regular teach-ins and workshops on undisciplining 18th and 19thc studies and on decolonial curriculum.

Courses:

Research Interests:

• Black Atlantic Studies
• Race, Slavery, and Gender
• Jane Austen, Race and Empire
• Anti-Racist and Decolonial Pedagogies.

Publications:

Books

Myths of Mastery: Enslavers, Planters and Colonial Agents in the Black Atlantic, 1750-1833. The University of North Carolina Press. Under Consideration.

The History of Mary Prince a West Indian Slave. Related by Herself. Edited with an Introduction, Kerry Sinanan. Broadview Press. Forthcoming, 2024.

Austen After 200: New Reading Spaces. Eds. Annika Bautz, Daniel Cook, and Kerry Sinanan. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022: 1-257.

Romanticism, Sincerity and Authenticity. Eds. Tim Milnes and Kerry Sinanan. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010: 1- 268.

Journal Special Issues and Clusters

Refereed Articles

‘Beryl Gilroy’s Caribbean Decolonization of Romantic Humanism’. In Keats-Shelley Journal. Ed. Jonathan Mulrooney. Volume 71, Spring 2023: 169-187.

‘Violent Intimacies in The Woman of Colour’. In Black Studies and Romanticism. Special Issue. Ed. Kate Singer. Romanticism on the Net. Spring 2024. Forthcoming.

‘Introduction’. New Essays on The Woman of Colour (1808). Special Issue. Eds. Nicole Aljoe, Kerry Sinanan and Mariam Wassif. Eighteenth-Century Fiction. Vol 35, no 1. January 2023: 1-27.

‘Beads of Resistance: Reading Black Diasporic Indigeneity in the Black Atlantic’. In Re-Indigenizing Romantic Studies. Special Issue. Ed. Nikki Hessell. Studies In Romanticism. Winter 2022. Vol 62: 515-530.

‘Mary Prince’s Back and her Critique of Anti-Slavery Sympathy’. In Race, Blackness and Romanticism.  Special Issue. Ed. Patricia A. Matthew. Studies In Romanticism. Volume 61, Number 1, Spring 2022: 67-79.

‘Eroticizing Men of Empire in Austen Adaptation’. In Race and Racism in Austen Spaces. Ed. Kerry Sinanan. ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830. Vol. 11: Iss.2, Article 9. Online.

‘ “The Wealth of Worlds”: Gender, Race, and Property in The Woman of Colour (1808)’. In Studies in Religion and the Enlightenment 2 (2): 53-56.

‘The “Slave” as Cultural Artifact: The Case of Mary Prince’. In Studies in

Eighteenth-Century Culture. Vol. 49. Eds. Eve Tavor Bannet and Roxann Wheeler. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press: 69-87.

‘BLM 2020: Breathing, Resistance, and the War Against Enslavement’. In Age of Revolutions. June 10, 2020.

‘Maroon Resistance, White Violence, and Romanticism’s Envy of Black Freedom’. In, Romantic Circles Unbound, 20.1, Breath.           

‘ “Most Delightfully Incongruous”: Desire, Plot and Realism in the novels of Barbara Pym’. In Women: a Cultural Review. Vol. 25, Issue 4, December 2014. Eds. Nick Turner and Frances White. London: Routledge: 395-412.

Refereed Book Chapters

‘Oliver Goldsmith and Race’. In Goldsmith in Context. Eds. Michael Griffin and David O’Shaughnessy. Cambridge University Press, 2023. Forthcoming.                               

‘Mothers of Enslavement in, Matthew Lewis’ Isle of Devils.’ In, Romantic Beasts: Mundane and Magical Animal Figures of Global Romanticism. Eds. Christopher Clason and Michael Demson. Bucknell University Press, 2024. Forthcoming.

‘Clarissa and White Supremacy: Gender, Race and Erasure’. In, New Readings of Samuel Richardson. Ed. Rebecca Anne Barr and Bonnie Latimer, Bucknell University Press, 2024. Forthcoming. 

‘Mr Darcy: Austen’s Imperial Man of Feeling’. In Austen After 200: Reading After the Bicentenaries. Eds. Kerry Sinanan, Annika Bautz and Daniel Cook. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022: 127-155.

‘Introduction’. In Austen After 200: Reading After the Bicentenaries. Eds. Annika Bautz, Daniel Cook, and Kerry Sinanan. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022: 1-14.

‘Lost Mothers in the Caribbean Plantation and Black Maternal and Infant Mortality, Now’. In Caribbean Literature in Transition. Volume 1. 1800-1920. Eds. Evelyn O’Callaghan and Tim Watson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020: 390-406.

‘Slavery and Glass: Tropes of “Race” and Reflection’. In In Sparkling Company: A History of English Glass. Ed. Christopher Maxwell. Corning, New York: The Corning Museum, 2020: 69-85.

‘ “The Feelings of an Officer”: John Stedman in Suriname’. In
The British Abroad Since the Eighteenth Century. Volume 2 Experiencing Imperialism. Eds. Martin Farr and Xavier Geugan. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013: 137-153.

‘Too Good to be True? Hannah More, Authenticity, Sincerity and Evangelical Abolitionism’. In Romanticism, Sincerity and Authenticity. Eds. Tim Milnes and Kerry Sinanan. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010: 137-161.

‘Introduction’. Kerry Sinanan and Tim Milnes. Romanticism, Sincerity and Authenticity. Eds. Tim Milnes and Kerry Sinanan. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010:1-31.

‘The Slave Narrative and the Literature of Abolition’. In The Cambridge Companion to the African American Slave Narrative. Ed. Audrey Fisch. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007: 61-80.

‘Trading Places: Slave Traders Enslaved’. In Colonial and Postcolonial Incarceration. Ed. Graeme Harper. London and New York: Continuum Press, 2001: 67-85. 

Open Access Articles and Essays

‘Slavery and the Pellucid Rhetoric of Glass’. Proceedings from the Corning Museum of Glass 59^th Annual Seminar on Glass. November 2022.

‘Heterogeneous Blackness: Peter Brathwaite’s Eighteenth-Century Re-Portraits’. In The 18^th-Century Common. July 13 2020.

‘Austen, Love and Pain in the Novels of Barbara Pym’. In Green Leaves. The Journal of the Barbara Pym Society. Vol. XX, No 2, Autumn 2014: 8.

Public History and Social Engagement

Glass Education Exchange: Expanded Glass Histories Series. ‘Migration, Boundaries and Belonging’. ‘Transparency, Enlightenment and Glass’. With King Cobra. 30 January.

Victoria and Albert Museum: The Age of Glass, 1650 to now. ‘Transparency, Whiteness and Glass in the Black Atlantic’. 16 November.

In Conversation with Honorée Fanonne Jeffers. University of Maryland Anti-Racism Series. 20 September.

Clarissa and White Supremacy: Race, Gender, and Erasure. Seminar 11, Open Digital Seminar for Eighteenth-Century Studies. 10 May.

“Texas’ Denial of Systemic Racism Upholds White Power”. Opinion. Austin American Statesman. 13 October.

Seeing Through Whiteness: A Roundtable on Mary Prince. BARS Digital Seminars.

The Woman of Colour (1808). Bonnets at Dawn Podcast. Series 4.5 Episode 2. Lauren Burke, Hannah Chapman, and Kerry Sinanan.