Anita Rupprecht

Jessica R. Pliley and Zoe Trodd, of the Gilder Lehrman Center’s Modern Slavery Working Group join Tom Thurston on this episode of Slavery and Its Legacies. 

Anita Rupprecht is based in the School of Humanities and lectures in cultural history, theory and literary studies across the Humanities Programme. An interdisiplinary scholar, her primary research interests focus on the British and American slave trades, enslavement and empire. She is particularly interested in the politics of history making, representation and cultural memory as they relate to these contexts.

Rupprecht’s primary research falls under a long-term project, Sympathy, Slavery, and Representation in the British Atlantic World, 1770-1840, which concerns the representation of transatlantic slavery and abolition in relation to discourses of moral sentiment and political economy in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. 

Rupprecht completed a BA (Hons.) degree in English and an MA in Culture and Social Change at the University of Southampton before studying for a D.Phil. at the University of Sussex. Awarded in 2000, her doctoral thesis focused on the anti-slavery campaigns, the Enlightenment culture of sentiment and the slave narrative. She has had a full-time teaching post at the University of Brighton since 2001 and is the co-founder and co-convenor of the research seminar series, ‘Politics, Philosophy and Aesthetics’. She is a Visiting Fellow at the Gilder Lehman Centre for the Study of Slavery, Abolition and Resistance, Yale University in Spring 2018. 

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