Kerry Sinanan
Title: Associate Professor
Phone: 204-786-9284
Email: k.sinanan@uwinnipeg.ca
Biography:
Kerry Sinanan is Associate Professor in Global pre-1800 Literature and Culture. She specializes in the Black Atlantic, Caribbean slavery and race, and the global dimensions of Black, Indigenous, and Caribbean 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). She is 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:
F ENGL-2203-001 SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
FW ENGL-3209-001 18th CENTURY STUDIES
W ENGL-3725-002 TOPICS IN CULTURAL STUDIES
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.
2022 Austen After 200: New Reading Spaces. Eds. Annika Bautz, Daniel Cook, and Kerry Sinanan. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022: 1-257.
2010 Romanticism, Sincerity and Authenticity. Eds. Tim Milnes and Kerry Sinanan. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010: 1- 268.
Journal Special Issues and Clusters
2024 The Woman of Colour. A Black Studies and Romanticism Cluster. Ed. Kerry Sinanan. In Romanticism on the Net. Issue #82, Spring 2024.
2023 The Caribbean and Romanticism. Guest Editor. Keats-Shelley Journal. Ed. Kerry Sinanan. Volume 71, Spring 2023.
2023 Teaching The History of Mary Prince (1831), Guest Edited by Kerry Sinanan. ABO Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830. Vol 13: Issue 1.
2023 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: 1-142.
2021 Race and Racism in Austen Spaces. Special Cluster. Ed. Kerry Sinanan. ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830. Vol.11: Iss.2.
Refereed Articles
2025 “On the Hinge”: Olaudah Equiano and Black Atlantic Identities. Eighteenth-Century Fiction. Spring, 2025. Forthcoming.
2024 Introduction. The Woman of Colour. A Black Studies and Romanticism Cluster. Ed. Kerry Sinanan. In Black Studies and Romanticism. Ed. Kate Singer. Romanticism on the Net. Issue #82, Spring 2024. (Published October 2024).
2024 ‘Violent Intimacies in The Woman of Colour’. The Woman of Colour. A Black Studies and Romanticism Cluster. Ed. Kerry Sinanan. In Black Studies and Romanticism. Ed. Kate Singer. Romanticism on the Net. Issue #82, Spring 2024. (Published October, 2024).
2024 ‘The Master’s House’. In The Eighteenth Century. Vol 63. Number 1-2, Spring-Summer 2022: 141-147. (Published May, 2024).
2024 ‘Beryl Gilroy’s Caribbean Decolonization of Romantic Humanism’. In Keats-Shelley Journal. Ed. Jonathan Mulrooney. Volume 71, Spring 2022: 169-187. (Published November, 2023).
2023 ‘Mary Prince’s Undisciplining Lessons: Counter-Narrative and Testimonio in The History’, ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830: Vol.13: Iss.1, Article 11.
2023 ‘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.
2022 ‘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.
2022 ‘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.
2021 ‘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.
2021 ‘ “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.
2020 ‘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.
2020 ‘BLM 2020: Breathing, Resistance, and the War Against Enslavement’. In Age of Revolutions. June 10, 2020.
2020 ‘Maroon Resistance, White Violence, and Romanticism’s Envy of Black Freedom’. In, Romantic Circles Unbound, 20.1, Breath.
Refereed Book Chapters
2025 ‘Decoloniality and Racial Capitalism’. In The Sage Handbook of Decolonial Theory. Eds. Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores, Ana Carolina Díaz Beltrán, Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Sandeep Bakshi, Agustín Lao-Montes, Flavia Rios. Sage, 2025: 615-625.
2025 ‘Clarissa and White Supremacy: Gender, Race and Erasure’. In, Revisiting Samuel Richardson. Ed. Rebecca Anne Barr and Bonnie Latimer, Bucknell University Press, 2025: 102-121.
2025 The History of Mary Prince a West Indian Slave. Related by Herself. Edited with an Introduction, Kerry Sinanan. Broadview Press. Forthcoming, 2025.
2024 ‘Race’. In Oliver Goldsmith in Context. Eds. Michael Griffin and David O’Shaughnessy. Cambridge University Press, 2024: 114-125.
2022 ‘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.
2022 ‘Introduction’. In Austen After 200: Reading After the Bicentenaries. Eds. Annika Bautz, Daniel Cook, and Kerry Sinanan. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022: 1-14.
2020 ‘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.
2020 ‘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.
Open Access Articles and Essays
2024 ‘Restoring the Radical Imagination: Shatz v. Harris’. The Massachusetts Review. August 9.
2024 ‘Critical Counterinsurgency and Zionism’. The Massachusetts Review. June 14.
2022 ‘Slavery and the Pellucid Rhetoric of Glass’. Proceedings from the Corning Museum of Glass 59th Annual Seminar on Glass. November 2022.
2020 ‘Heterogeneous Blackness: Peter Brathwaite’s Eighteenth-Century Re-Portraits’. In The 18th-Century Common. July 13 2020.