Dr Désha Osborne
Scholar and Storyteller | 📍 Edinburgh
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Dr Désha Osborne is a Chancellor’s Fellow in English and Scottish Literature at the University of Edinburgh. The daughter of Vincentian immigrants, she is a scholar of early Caribbean/transatlantic literary history; her scholarship focuses on literature, colonialism, slavery, and the migrations of people, culture, and ideas.
Désha is currently completing a monograph study of Scottish settlers and enslavers in St Vincent and the Grenadines during the 18th and early 19th century who were collectively responsible for reconstructing the islands’ landscape, culture and historical imagination during this period. Her research also explores the lives of Black and mixed-heritage women and children enslaved by Scottish settlers.
Désha has held fellowships at the Folger Shakespeare Library, the University of Aberdeen, and the University of Edinburgh. She completed her PhD in English at the University of Cambridge where her editorial of the poem Hiroona, was published with the University of the West Indies Press.
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