Ashley Cohen

My first book, The Global Indies: British Imperial Culture and the Reshaping of the World, 1756-1815 was published by Yale University Press in 2020. My critical edition of Lady Nugent’s East India Journal was published by Oxford University Press (2014). My articles and essays have appeared in Eighteenth-Century Studies, Comparative Literature, The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, Sporting Cultures, 1650-1850 (UToronto Press, 2018), and Britain’s Black Past (Liverpool UP, 2020). In 2018 I was awarded the inaugural Srinivas Aravamudan Prize by the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies for my article, “The Global Indies: Historicizing Oceanic Metageographies.”

I’m currently working on a new book project centered on the Ordinary of Newgate’s Accounts, entitled “The Exploited Eighteenth Century.”