Leah M. Thomas

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Education

• PhD, Media, Art, and Text, Virginia Commonwealth University
• MLS, Library and Information Science, University of Kentucky
• MA, English, graduate certificate in Women’s Studies, University of Kentucky
• BA, English with honors, minor in Women’s Studies, Hanover College and University of Kentucky

Research Interests

• Eighteenth-century transatlantic literature and cartography; early American literature; early American Indian, African American, and women’s literature; gender studies; digital humanities

Publications

• Edges of Transatlantic Commerce in the Long Eighteenth Century, edited with Seohyon Jung, Routledge, 2021 (issued in paperback in 2023); book chapters, “’Peruvia’s bleeding land’: Bodyscape Commerce in Helen Maria Williams’s Peru,” in Edges of Transatlantic Commerce in the Long Eighteenth Century, edited by Seohyon Jung and Leah M. Thomas (Routledge, 2021), 74-103; “Epilogue: Reimagining the Edge of Transatlantic Commerce,” with Seohyon Jung, in Edges of Transatlantic Commerce in the Long Eighteenth Century, edited by Leah M. Thomas and Seohyon Jung (Routledge, 2021), 188-215; and “Materializing the Immaterial: Creating Capital in a Mirrored Mirage,” in Cultural Economies of the Atlantic World: Objects and Capital in the Transatlantic Imagination, edited by Victoria Barnett-Woods (Routledge, 2020), 79-101; in addition to the article, “Knowledge Networks: Contested Geographies in The History of Mary Prince,” ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830 9, no. 2 (2019): art. 2 [1-26], accessible at http://doi.org/10.5038/2157-7129.9.2.1182. Dr. Thomas has served as editor of The Portolan: Journal of the Washington Map Society. She has presented at the Modern Language Association (MLA), the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS), and at regional and local conferences, societies, and events.