Contributors
- Contributors
Samuli Kaislaniemi recently submitted his dissertation at the University of Helsinki. His doctoral research is on the early English East India Company and language contact, a topic on which he has previously published several articles. Sam's research interests revolve around early modern English letter-writing and correspondence networks. An unabashed paleography geek, Sam has most recently been delving into epistolary materiality.
Guido van Meersbergen is a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow at the University of Warwick, where he is a member of the Global History and Culture Centre. His research focuses on crosscultural diplomacy, early modern ethnography, and the Dutch and English East India Companies in South Asia. Guido received his Ph.D. from University College London and has previously held the Max Weber Fellowship at the European University Institute and a teaching position at the University of Amsterdam.
Souvik Mukherjee is Assistant Professor of English at Presidency University, Kolkata. His research, on which he completed his Ph.D. from Nottingham Trent University, is on videogames as an emerging storytelling medium. Other interests are Digital Humanities, Early Modern Literature, and Post-structuralist theory. Souvik's book, Videogames and Storytelling: Reading Games and Playing Books, has recently been published by Palgrave Macmillan, and his second monograph on videogames and postcolonialism is forthcoming. He has completed two Digital Humanities projects on the Dutch and Scottish colonial cemeteries in India and is planning further work on the VOC in Bengal. [End Page 131]
Amrita Sen is Associate Professor of Humanities at Heritage Institute of Technology and affiliated faculty at Heritage College, University of Calcutta. She was previously Associate Professor of English at Oklahoma City University. She has published on East India Company women, Bollywood appropriations of Shakespeare, and early modern ethnography. She is currently co-editing a collection of essays, Civic Performance: Pageantry and Entertainments in Early Modern London, and working on a book-length project that looks at the role of women and Indians in the making of the early East India Company.
Julia Schleck is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, specializing in English travel narratives. She received her Ph.D. from New York University in 2006. Her book, Telling True Tales of Islamic Lands: Forms of Mediation in Early English Travel Writing, 1575–1630, was published by Susquehanna University Press in 2011. Her work on early modern travel writing has appeared in Renaissance Quarterly, Prose Studies, and a number of recent essay collections. She is co-editor of the book series Connected Histories in the Early Modern World at ARC Humanities Press. Dr. Schleck's current book project investigates the East India Company archive, reading it as the place where global traders drew on the metaphorical resources of a gendered society to craft their vision of the global corporation and its place in the English nation.
Jyotsna G. Singh is Professor in the Department of English at Michigan State University. Her published work includes the following: The Postcolonial World, co-edited with David D. Kim (Routledge, 2017); A Companion to the Global Renaissance: English Literature and Culture in the Era of Expansion, editor (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009 and 2013); Travel Knowledge: European 'Discoveries' in the Early Modern Period, co-edited with Ivo Kamps (Palgrave, 2001); Colonial Narratives/Cultural Dialogues: 'Discoveries' of India in the Language of Colonialism (Routledge, 1996); and The Weyward Sisters: Shakespeare and Feminist Politics, co-authored with Dympna Callaghan and Lorraine Helms (Blackwell, 1994). Her articles have appeared in Renaissance Drama and Theater Journal, among others. She has received fellowships from the John Carter Brown Library [End Page 132] and Queen Mary, University of London, UK (Distinguished Visiting Faculty), among others. She is currently working on a book tentatively entitled Transcultural Islam: Muslim and Christian Identities in Mughal India and Early Modern England.
Philip J. Stern is Sally Dalton Robinson Associate Professor of History at Duke University. He is the author of The Company-State: Corporate Sovereignty and the Early Modern Foundations of the British Empire in India (Oxford, 2011), which received the Morris D. Forkosch Prize of the American Historical Association and the Trevor Reese Memorial Prize from the Institute of Commonwealth Studies. He is also the author of numerous...
