Kerry Sinanan

Kerry Sinanan is Assistant Professor of Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Literature at the University of Texas at San Antonio. She has held two research fellowships with the Moore Institute. Her current book, Myths of Mastery: Traders, Planters and Colonial Agents 1750-1833, analyzes enslavers’ attempts to construct an identity or self in their writings, tracing their self-justification as they made a living within the violence of slavery. In 2010, she co-edited the volume, Romanticism, Sincerity and Authenticity with Tim Milnes. Dr Sinanan’s work has received funding from the Beinecke Library, the James Ford Bell Library, and in 2017 she was a Visiting Scholar at the Yale Center for British Art where she began a new project on representations of slave mothers. Recently, she has been appointed Secretary/treasurer for the Early Caribbean Society.