NEW TRANSCULTURALISMS – 1400-1800

LOGO: Image source: Abraham Ortelius, Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (ATLAS), 1570.

NEW TRANSCULTURALISMS 1400-1800, Palgrave

10169337_627937490632492_8408465481317745882_n — Henry Hondius, ATLAS

SERIES EDITORS: ANN ROSALIND JONES, arjones@smith.edu

JYOTSNA G. SINGH, jsingh@msu.edu

AND MIHOKO SUZUKI,msuzuki@miami.edu

Please feel free to contact Series Editors for General Inquiries,

Contact: Megan Laddusaw, megan.laddusaw@palgrave-usa

This series presents studies of early modern contacts and exchanges among the states, polities, cultures, religions, and entrepreneurial organizations of Europe; Asia, including the Levant and East India/Indies; Africa; and the Americas. Books investigate diverse figures, such as travelers, merchants, mariners, cultural inventors — explorers, mapmakers, artists, craftsmen and writers — as they operated in political, mercantile, sexual, affective, and linguistic economies. We encourage authors to reflect on their own methodologies in relation to issues and theories relevant to the study of transculturalism, translation, and transnationalism. We are particularly interested in work on and from the perspective of the Asians, Africans, and Americans involved in these interactions, and on such topics as:

Material exchanges: including textiles, paper and printing, and technologies of knowledge
Movements and exchanges of bodies: embassies, voyagers, piracy, enslavement
Forms of transnational violence and its representations
Travel writing: its purposes, practices, forms, and effects on writing in other genres
Belief systems: religions, philosophies, sciences
Translations: verbal, artistic, philosophical
Aesthetic practices and systems of representation

Some earlier Titles: Transculturalisms- 1400-1800 Ashgate (2005-2009)

Jyotsna G. Singh

Jyotsna G. Singh teaches and researches early modern literature and culture, especially Shakespeare, colonial history, travel writing, postcolonial theory, early modern histories of Islam, and gender and race studies, often exploring the intersections of these different fields. Her published work includes numerous articles, book chapters, and works such as the following: “The Weyward Sisters: Shakespeare and Feminist Politics” (Blackwell), (co-authored); “Colonial Narratives/Cultural Dialogues: ‘Discovery’ of India in the Language of Colonialism” (Routledge); and “Travel Knowledge: European ‘Discoveries’ in the Early Modern Period” (Palgrave), (co-ed. Ivo Kamps); “A Companion to the Global Renaissance: English Literature and Culture in the Era of Expansion, 1559–1660 (Blackwell 2009); “The Postcolonial World” (co-ed. David D. Kim), (Routledge 2016); and most recently, “Shakespeare and Postcolonial Theory” (Arden). Currently, Jyotsna Singh is working on a monograph that draws on postcolonial theory, global exchange, and early modern history of Islam and Christianity. Tentatively entitled, Muslim and Christian Identity-formations in the Early Modern World, this monograph looks afresh at the shifting applications of the term ‘religion’ in Europe, via a conglomeration of Muslim cultural memories and European imaginings of the Muslim ‘other.’ She has received several research fellowships: at the Folger Shakespeare Library, a Distinguished Faculty Fellowship at Queen Mary, University of London (2008), and a Long-Term Fellowship at the John Carter Brown Library, Brown University, (2010). She was also invited to design and lead two Research Workshops at the Newberry Library (Renaissance Center): Anglo-Muslim Encounters (2011), and Reading the Early Modern Anglo-Muslim Archive (2012). Among her long-term research projects is a book/data base on “Iraqi Kurdistan,” on which she has published two blog essays, based on her travels and research to the region through an MSU exchange program (via an IREX grant- http://www.irex.org/). See Page on Podcasts and Media.

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