Nandini Das

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Nandini Das is professor of Early Modern Literature and Culture in the English faculty at the University of Oxford. She is a specialist in Shakespeare studies, Renaissance romance writing, early travel literature, and encounters between different cultures.

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Early life

Nandini Das grew up in India and studied the sciences at school, and after working as a software programmer in the publishing industry for a year, decided to return to academic research. Aged about 10, she was inspired by seeing Vanessa Redgrave in William Shakespeare's As You Like It on Indian television. [1] She earned a BA in English from Jadavpur University in Kolkata, India, after which she moved to Britain on a Rhodes scholarship to study English at University College, Oxford (BA). She subsequently earned her M.Phil and PhD at Trinity College, Cambridge. [2]

Career

Das was professor of English literature at the University of Liverpool until October 2019, when she became a Tutorial Fellow at Exeter College, Oxford and Professor of Early Modern Literature and Culture in the English faculty at Oxford. [3] Her research relates to cultural and intellectual history for the period 1600 to 1750 including fiction, accounts of early travel and encounters between different cultures. [4] [5]

She has edited a scholarly edition of Robert Greene's Planetomachia (1585) in 2007 and is the volume editor for Elizabethan Levant trade and South Asia of Richard Hakluyt's 'Principall Navigations, Voyages, Traffikes, and Discoveries of the English Nation. [4]

She is project director of the Travel, Transculturality and Identity in England, c.1550-1700 (TIDE) project. [6]

She is a fellow of the Higher Education Academy, [4] a member of the council of Research England, and a member of the Peer Review College of Britain's Arts and Humanities Research Council. [2]

In September 2018, she presented Tales of Tudor Travel: The Explorer's Handbook on BBC4 television. [7]

Courting India: England, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire won the 2023 British Academy Book Prize. [8] [9] [10]

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References

  1. ↑ Profile with Nandini Das. The Rhodes Project, 2013. Retrieved 12 September 2018.
  2. 1 2 Professor Nandini Das. Research England. Retrieved 12 September 2018.
  3. ↑ Professor Das' profile, Exeter College, University of Oxford
  4. 1 2 3 Prof Nandini Das. University of Oxford. Retrieved 12 September 2018.
  5. ↑ "Scholar - Women Also Know History". Womenalsoknowhistory.com. Retrieved 17 September 2018.
  6. ↑ "People". Tideproject.uk. 9 October 2016. Retrieved 17 September 2018.
  7. ↑ "Tales of Tudor Travel: The Explorer's Handbook - BBC Four". BBC. Retrieved 17 September 2018.
  8. ↑ "'Courting India: England, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire' by Nandini Das wins the £25,000 British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding 2023". The British Academy. Retrieved 2 November 2023.
  9. ↑ PTI (1 November 2023). "India-born author Nandini Das wins 2023 British Academy Book Prize". The Hindu. ISSN   0971-751X . Retrieved 19 November 2023.
  10. ↑ "Author Nandini Das wins British honours British honour". The Tribune.
  11. ↑ Kaicker, Abhishek (7 April 2023). "The Clash of Civilizations That Heralded a Rocky Relationship". The New York Times.
  12. ↑ "Review | What a visiting Brit thought of early 1600s India". Washington Post. 17 April 2023. ISSN   0190-8286 . Retrieved 19 November 2023.
  13. ↑ Dalrymple, William (16 March 2023). "Courting India — the unpromising origins of British power". Financial Times. Retrieved 19 November 2023.


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