Ashley Cohen

I am a scholar of seveenteenth- and eighteenth-century England and global empire. I’m currently working on a book project entitled “England’s Heretical Radicalisms: Sectarianism, Antinomianism, and Non-Domination in the Long Eighteenth Century.” I currently serve as editor for The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation.

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.”

At USC, I serve as Director of Graduate Studies for the English Department’s PhD in Literature.