history at the University of Chicago, where he was the inaugural postdoctoral fellow at the Institute on the Formation of Knowledge. During the 2019–2020 academic year, he was a visiting scholar at Princeton’s Davis Center for Historical Studies.
João Vicente Melo is a cultural historian who works on early modern cross-cultural encounters and diplomacy. His research interests include diplomatic rituals, early modern European ethnographic production about South Asia and Africa, religious missions, and the European presence in the Mughal court. He is a JIN research fellow at University Pablo de Olavide, Seville, Spain. He is currently finishing a comparative history of the experiences of Jesuit missionaries and English agents at the Mughal court between 1580 and 1615. His published work includes the following articles: “Respect and Superiority: The Ceremonial Rules of Goan Diplomacy and the Survival of the Estado da Índia, 1707–50,” Portuguese Studies, 28/2 (2012), 143–158; “Seeking Prestige and Survival: Gift-exchange Practices between the Portuguese Estado da Índia and Asian Rulers,” in Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, 56.4/5 (2013), 672–695; and “In Search of a Shared Language: The Goan Diplomatic Protocol,” Journal of Early Modern History, 20.4 (2016), 390–407. He is currently completing a translation of the writings of Antoni de Monserrate, SJ on his stay at the Mughal Court.
David Morrow is Associate Professor at the College of Saint Rose in Albany, New York. His essay on Thomas Deloney was published in Textual Practice in 2006; another on early seventeenth-century monopolistic merchants appeared in Global Traffic (Palgrave, 2008), edited by Barbara Sebek and Stephen Deng. His current project takes an ecocritical look at how early modern English writing interpreted primitive accumulation.
Ladan Niayesh is Professor of Early Modern Studies at the University of Paris and a member of the LARCA research center of the CNRS UMR 8225 (Laboratoire de Recherche sur les Cultures Anglophones). Her research focuses on early-modern travel writing and travel drama, more specifically in connection to Muscovy and Persia. Her latest publications include Three Romances of Eastern Conquest (Manchester University Press, 2018) and Eastern Resonances (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), coedited with Claire Gallien. She currently coedits the Persian travels of the Sherley brothers with Kurosh Meshkat and Alasdair MacDonald for the Hakluyt Society.
Ayesha Ramachandran is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and an affiliate of the Programs in Renaissance Studies and the History of Science and Medicine at Yale University. Her first prizewinning book, The Worldmakers (University of Chicago Press, 2015), provides a cultural and intellectual history of “the world,” showing how it emerged as a cultural keyword in early modernity. She has also published on Spenser, Lucretius, Ariosto, Tasso, Petrarch, Montaigne, postcolonial drama, and the histories of religious fundamentalism and cosmopolitanism in various journals and volumes including NLH, Spenser Studies, MLN, Forum Italicum, and Anglistik. Her current projects range from new research on early modern and contemporary South Asia to work on comparative philology, cartography, oral history, and lyric studies. Her new book manuscript in progress is tentatively titled Lyric Thinking: Towards a Global Poetic.
Catherine Ryu is Associate Professor of Japanese Language and Culture and director of the Japanese Studies Program at Michigan State University. She received her PhD at the University of Michigan, and her teaching and research interests include classical Japanese, Heian women’s narratives, Japanese culture and literature, Korean literature, zainichi (Korean residents in Japan) literature, game studies, translation studies, children’s literature, digital humanities, and global studies. She also holds a US patent for a language-learning platform and is the principal investigator of Mandarin Chinese tone perception projects and the team lead for Tone Perfect, a multimodal Mandarin Chinese audio database (https://toneperfect.lib.msu.edu).
Barbara Sebek is Professor of English at Colorado State University. Her most recent essay, “Edmund Hosts William: appropriation, polytemporality, and postcoloniality in Frank McGuinness’s Mutabilitie,” appears in The Routledge Handbook of Shakespeare and Global Appropriation (2020). Other globally inflected publications include “Quickly, Archy, and the Citizens’ Wives, OR, How to Talk to an Elephant” in Early Modern Culture (2017) http://tigerprints.clemson.edu/emc/vol12/iss1/4, “Global Consciousness, English Histories” in Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare’s Histories (MLA, 2017), “‘Wine and sugar of the best and the fairest’: Canary, the Canaries, and the Global in Windsor” in Culinary Shakespeare (Duquesne University Press, 2016), “Different Shakespeares: Thinking Globally in an Early Modern Literature Course” in Teaching Medieval and Early Modern Cross-Cultural Encounters (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), and “‘More natural to the nation’: Situating Shakespeare in the ‘Querelle de Canary,’” in Shakespeare Studies (2014). She is also coeditor (with Stephen Deng) of Global Traffic: Discourses and Practices of Trade in English Literature and Culture from 1550 to 1700 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008).
Amrita Sen is Associate Professor and Deputy Director, UGC-HRDC, University of Calcutta, and affiliated member of the Department of English. She is coeditor of Civic Performance: Pageantry and Entertainments in Early Modern London, with J. Caitlin Finlayson, (Routledge, 2020), and has also coedited a special issue of the Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies on “Alternative Histories of the East India Company” (2017). She has published essays and book chapters on East India Company women, Bollywood Shakespeares, and early modern ethnography.
Jyotsna G. Singh is Professor in the Department of English at Michigan State University. Her published works include Colonial Narratives/Cultural Dialogues: “Discoveries” of India in the Language of Colonialism (Routledge, 1996), Shakespeare and Postcolonial Theory (Bloomsbury Arden, 2019), Travel Knowledge (coedited with Ivo Kamps; Palgrave, 2001), The Weyward Sisters: Shakespeare and Feminist Politics (coedited with Dympna Callaghan and Lorraine Helms; Wiley Blackwell, 1994), A Companion to the Global Renaissance (editor; Wiley Blackwell, 2009), The Postcolonial World (coedited with David Kim; Routledge, 2016), and numerous book chapters and articles. She serves as a coeditor for a book series New Transculturalisms, 1400–1800 (Palgrave). Singh has also been the recipient of several visiting fellowships, including at Queen Mary University of London, UK (2008) and John Carter Brown Library, Brown University (2010). Most recently, she was elected a Visiting Fellow, St. Catherine’s College, Oxford University, UK (Michaelmas term, 2019).
Ian Smith is Richard and Joan Sell Professor in the Humanities at Lafayette College in the Department of English, where he teaches courses in Shakespeare and early modern drama, early modern and critical race studies, and sexuality. He is the author of Race and Rhetoric in the Renaissance: Barbarian Errors (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009) and collaborator on Othello Re-imagined in Sepia (Lucia Press, 2012). His work on Shakespeare and early modern drama has been published in several anthologies and journals. He is currently completing a book on Shakespeare, reading, and race titled Black Shakespeare.
Adam Smyth teaches English Literature and the History of the Book at Balliol College, Oxford. His books include Material Texts in Early Modern England (Cambridge University Press, 2018), Autobiography in Early Modern England (Cambridge University Press, 2010), and (edited with Dennis Duncan) Book Parts (Oxford University Press, 2019). He writes regularly for the London Review of Books.
Mihoko Suzuki is Professor of English and Cooper Fellow in the Humanities Emerita, University of Miami. She is the author of Metamorphoses of Helen: Authority, Difference, and the Epic (Cornell University Press, 1989), Subordinate Subjects: Gender, the Political Nation, and Literary Form in England, 1588–1688 (Routledge, 2003), and Antigone’s Example: Early Modern Women’s Political Writing in Times of Civil War from Christine de Pizan to Helen Maria Williams (2021). She is editor of History of British Women Writing, 1610–1690 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011) and coeditor, with Ann Rosalind Jones and Jyotsna Singh, of New Transculturalisms, 1400–1800,