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Désha Amelia Osborne is a Chancellor’s Fellow Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. The daughter of Vincentian immigrants, she is a scholar of Caribbean and transatlantic literary history, and her teaching and research are focused on colonialism, slavery, and the migrations of people, culture, and ideas.  Désha is currently completing a monograph study of Scottish settlers and enslavers in the island of St Vincent during the 18th and early 19th century who were collectively responsible for reconstructing the landscape, culture and historical imagination of the island during this period. The research also works to uncover the lives of Black and mixed-heritage women and their children enslaved by these Scots.

Désha has held research fellowships at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, Special Collections Library in the University of Aberdeen, and the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh. Désha previously taught literature in the Department of English and Department of Africana, Puerto Rican and Latino Studies at Hunter College, City University of New York. She completed her PhD in English at the University of Cambridge where her research was a full-length study of the poem Hiroona: an Historical Romance in Poetic Form, published with the University of the West Indies Press.

Education/Academic qualification

English Literature, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), ‘A Private Poem and a Hidden Nation: Nature, Providence and Romantic History in Hiroona.’ , University of Cambridge

External positions

Vice President, Early Caribbean Society

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College Research Themes

  • Identities & Inequalities
  • Cultural Heritage
  • Data & Digital

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