Prof Nandini Das B.A. (Oxon), M.Phil. (Cantab.), PhD(Cantab)
Professor of English Literature English
- Work email N.Das@liverpool.ac.uk
- Personal Websitehttp://www.liv.ac.uk/english/staff/nandini-das/
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Research
Research Interest 1
Cultural and intellectual history, 1600-1750; romance (texts and performance); women's writing, sixteenth to early eighteenth century; Renaissance travel literature; the development of eighteenth century Orientalism; translation and mediation of Indian classical literature in the work of Sir William Jones (1746-1794) and other early Orientalists.
Research Grants
Common Places: Travel and Cultural Memory in Renaissance England
LEVERHULME TRUST (UK)
February 2013 - January 2014
An edition of Levant Travels, South Asia, and Anglo-Ottoman Diplomacy in Richard Hakluyt's Principal Navigations (1598-1600)
ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL
September 2012 - January 2013
Envisioning the Indian City: Spaces of Encounter (ETIC)
UK-INDIA EDUCATION AND RESEARCH INITIATIVE (UK)
March 2013 - February 2016
Research Collaborations
Jackson, Iain
Internal
Envisioning the Indian City, a new interdisciplinary research network.
Changing Places Incubation grant funded scoping project co-ordinated by UoL academics in Architecture, English and in French.
Magedera, Ian
Internal
Envisioning the Indian City, a new interdisciplinary research network.
Changing Places Incubation grant funded scoping project co-ordinated by UoL academics in Architecture, English and in French.
Professor Swapan Kumar Chakravorty
External: National Library, India
Collaboration on preservation of National Library rare books collection. Part of the AHRC-BL-Indian Higher Education Cell initiative for Digital Knowledge Exchange and UK-India collaborations.
Oliver Urquhart Irvine
External: British Library
Ongoing collaboration on research into Renaissance English cross-encounters in Asia and Africa. Planned international conference, exhibition and research network.
Gemma Bodinetz, Creative Director
External: Everyman and Liverpool Playhouse Theatres
This knowledge exchange project develops a close working relationship between Shakespeare studies at the School of English and Shakespeare performance at the Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse. Structured primarily around research-led teaching in the School, specifically two key undergraduate modules on Shakespeare at Levels 1 and 3, the project will establish collaboration at the various levels of research, student experience and outreach. Key outputs include (i) the development of a model for practice-based teaching, (ii) research collaboration exploring the relationship between academic study and performance dynamics, (iii) enhancement of student employability, and (iv) outreach efforts.
Supriya Chaudhuri
External: Jadavpur University, India
Prof Chaudhuri is collaborator on the RDF-funded "Writing about Travel in Renaissance England: Pilot Study", and co-ordinator of the archival research and textual analysis being done for this project in India by two postgraduate Research Assistants.