Ashley L Cohen
I'm assistant professor of English at the University of Southern California.
I work at the intersection of eighteenth-century, postcolonial, and South Asia studies. My first monograph, The Global Indies: British Imperial Culture, 1756-1815 is forthcoming from Yale University Press (Fall 2020). My critical edition of Lady Nugent’s East India Journal was published by Oxford University Press (2014).
My articles and essays have appeared or are forthcoming 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 am currently at work on a number of new projects. First, a monograph entitled "Enlightenments Against Empire: Buddhism, Philosophical Materialism, and Anticolonialism in India, 1656-1956." Second, with collaborators, a translation of Yashpal's Hindi novel, Manushya Ke Roop (1949).
I offer courses on postcolonial theory, British Literature, and South Asian literature.
Source: University of Southern California
