Nandini Das
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Nandini Das

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Nandini Das is Professor of Early Modern English Literature and Culture at Oxford University. She is a scholar of Renaissance literature, travel, migration, and cross-cultural encounters, and has published widely on these topics, from major sixteenth and seventeenth century authors like Philip Sidney, Shakespeare and Cervantes, to the fleeting presence of three Japanese boys in sixteenth century Portuguese-held Goa, India. Her Cambridge History of Travel Writing (2019), co-edited with Tim Youngs, covers global Anglophone and non-Anglophone travel writing from antiquity to the internet, while Keywords of Identity, Race, and Human Mobility in Early Modern England (2021) emerges from her major, long-term research project on the impact of travel and human mobility, both forced and voluntary, on fundamental ideas of identity and belonging. She regularly presents television and radio programmes on topics related to her research.
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