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
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
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
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
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
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
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.