Dissertation: "The Virginian Atlantic: Enslaved Reproduction and the American South in the British Imagination, 1790–1850"

Advisor: Dr. James Sidbury

Emily Lampert is an ABD PhD Candidate. She is currently working on her dissertation, which investigates the relationship between enslaved reproduction and the American South (and, in particular, Virginia) in the minds of antislavery Britons. She has also recently published her article, "By Girls and For Girls: Women's Community and Racialized Performance in the Early Years of Rice Institute," in the Southwestern Historical Quarterly and has another article in review at the Virginia Magazine of History and Culture. Emily is also an Instructor in the First-Year Intensive Writing Seminar (FWIS) program at Rice, under which she teaches FWIS 213, "The Supernatural South: Haunted Plantations, Confederate Vampires, and Debates over Southern Memory."