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First Name
Nandini
Last Name
Das
Country
United Kingdom
State
Affiliation
University of Liverpool
Website URL
https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/english/staff/nandini-das/ SEE ALSO: http://www.tideproject.uk/people/
Keywords
early modern travel, migration, voyages and exploration, early modern literature and theatre including Shakespeare, concepts of race, migration and identity
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PhD
PhD

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About Me

Nandini Das is a literary and cultural historian, and Professor of English Literature at the University of Liverpool, UK. In multiple essays and books such as Robert Greene’s Planetomachia (2007), Renaissance Romance: The Transformation of English Prose Fiction, 1570-1620 (2011), and Enchantment and Dis-enchantment in Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama, co-edited with Nick Davis (2016), she has explored the genre of romance, Renaissance prose fiction, and the place of the everyday in late sixteenth century literature. Her investigation of the traces and impact of early modern cross-cultural encounters in Britain, and British and European engagement with the wider world, has developed at the same time through a number of essays on Renaissance travel, and through her work as volume editor of Elizabethan Levant Trade and South Asia in the forthcoming Oxford University Press edition of Richard Hakluyt’s The Principal Navigations, co-editor (with Tim Youngs) of the Cambridge History of Travel Writing, and Principal Investigator of the ‘Travailer’ and ‘Envisioning the Indian City’ projects. TIDE brings those two facets of her research interests together in an attempt to understand how transculturality evolved in early modern Britain, and how literature reflected and complicated that story. As one of BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Thinkers, Nandini has written and presented programmes on television and radio on Renaissance cabinets of curiosity, Shakespeare, Renaissance travel and histories of immigration, and on literature and popular culture of sixteenth and seventeenth century England.

Recent Publications

See here:

https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/english/staff/nandini-das/publications/

Media Coverage
BBC New Generation Thinker with extensive media experience
Country Focus
early modern England, early modern English global voyages and explorations, India
Expertise by Geography
East Asia, England, India, Mediterranean, United Kingdom, Western Europe
Expertise by Chronology
Pre-17th century, 17th century, Early Modern
Expertise by Topic
Book History, Higher Ed, Race