Curriculum vitae jyotsna g. Singh

CURRICULUM VITAE
JYOTSNA G. SINGH

Department of English

201 Morrill Hall

Michigan State University

East Lansing

Michigan 48824-1036

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EDUCATION:
Ph.D., December 1986: Syracuse University

M. A., May 1980: Syracuse University

EMPLOYMENT:

1998-present: Michigan State University, Associate Professor: 1998-2005

Full Professor: 2006

1989-1998: Southern Methodist University, Assistant and Associate Professor

1988-1989: Colgate University, Hamilton, New York, Visiting Assistant Professor

1987-1988: Le Moyne College, Visiting Assistant Professor

GRANTS AND AWARDS:
2010: Long-term Fellowship, John Carter Brown Library, Brown University, Providence.
2008: Distinguished Visiting Faculty Fellowship, Queen Mary -- University of London, U.K. January 1-April 30, 2008.
2006-07: Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington D.C. Short term Research Fellowship.
2005: Michigan State University, Lead Faculty in Conference Proposal: Casid Grant, $10,000. (Conference on Globalization and Visual Culture), 17 -19 March, 2005.
2002: Michigan State University, (IRGP) Research grant, $17,000.
2002: Folger Shakespeare Library, Short term Research Fellowship.
1997: Folger Shakespeare Library, Short term Research Fellowship.
1995: Southern Methodist University Research Grant (Summer) $1,600.
1992: American Council of Learned Societies, Research Grant, $3,000.
1988: The School of Criticism and Theory (Summer Seminar at Dartmouth College), “Methodologies of Empire.” Director: Professor Edward W. Said.
1985: NEH Grant (Summer Seminar for College Teachers), “Shakespeare's Sources.” University of California, Berkeley. Director: Professor Jonas A. Barish.

PUBLICATIONS: Books

A Companion to the Global Renaissance: English Literature and Culture in the Era of Expansion. Ed. Oxford: Blackwell, 2009.
Travel Knowledge: European ‘Discoveries’ in the Early Modern Period (Co-edited with Ivo Kamps.) New York: Palgrave, 2001.
Colonial Narratives/Cultural Dialogues: ‘Discoveries’ of India in the

Language of Colonialism. London: Routledge, 1996.
The Weyward Sisters: Shakespeare and Feminist Politics. (Co-authored with

Dympna Callaghan and Lorraine Helms.) Oxford: Blackwell, 1994.

CO- EDITOR: Journals

Special Issue: Shakespeare Worldwide and the Idea of an Audience. GRAMMA : Journal of Theory and Criticism. Volume 15. 2007 (co-editor with Tina Krontiris).

Special Issue: Re-Thinking Postcoloniality. Journal X. Vol. 6 (August, 2001). (co-editor with Daniel Vitkus).
UNDER CONTRACT:

Antony and Cleopatra: Texts and Contexts. (Co-editor with Daniel Vitkus). New York: Bedford/St Martin’s. Publication date: December 2009.
SERIES CO-EDITOR:

Transculturalisms -- 1400-1700. Ashgate Press.
WORK-IN-PROGRESS:
Hakluyt’s Books and Hawkins’ Slaves: Travel Writing and Representations of the Early English Slave Trade
Translation and Traffic in Early Modern Anglo-Muslim Encounters

PUBLICATIONS: Articles and Chapters
“Postcolonial Shakespeare Revisited.” (co-author , Gitanjali Shahani). Shakespeare: The Journal of the British Shakespeare Studies. Routledge. 6.1 February (2010).
‘Mourning Become Macbeth.’ Dialog: An Interdisciplinary Journal. No. 16 (2008): 31-39.
“The Location of Shakespeare: Afterword.” Native Shakespeares.

Ed. Craig Dionne and Parmita Kapadia. New York: Palgrave, 2008: 233-240.

“‘ Th’ Expense of Spirit in a Waste of Shame’: Mapping the ‘Emotional

Regime’ in Shakespeare’s Sonnets.” The Blackwell Companion to

Shakespeare’s Sonnets. Ed. Michael Schoenfeldt. Oxford, U.K. Blackwell, 2006: 277-290.
“Islam in the European imagination in the early modern Period.” Voices of Toleration in an Age of Persecution. Ed. Vincent Carey. Washington D.C.: Folger Shakespeare Library and University of Washington Press, 2004: 83-92.
“The Politics of Empathy in Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra: A View from Below.” A Companion to Shakespeare’s Works Vol. I: The

Tragedies. Ed. Richard Dutton and Jean Howard. Oxford: Blackwell,

2003: 411-429.

“Post-colonial Criticism.” Shakespeare: An Oxford Guide. Ed. Lena Orlin and

Stanley Wells. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003: 492-506.

“Postcolonial Approaches to Shakespeare with Special References to King Lear and Othello.” Yearly Review. Department of English, University of Delhi, No. 11. February (2000): 141-156.

“Whose Body?” Forum: “Body Work.” Shakespeare Studies Vol. XXIX (2001): 63-67.

“Gendered ‘Gifts’ in Shakespeare’s Belmont: The Economies of Exchange in Early Modern England.” A Feminist Companion to Shakespeare. Ed. Dympna

Callaghan. Oxford: Blackwell, 2000: 144-59.

“Moor or Less: Othello under Surveillance, Calcutta, 1848.” Shakespeare and

Appropriation (Co-authored with Sudipto Chatterjee). Ed. Christy Desmet

and Robert Sawyer. London: Routledge, 1999: 65-82.

“Bridewell and Bedlam: Locations of Civic Nationalism in Early Modern England – Response Essay.” Early Modern Culture. Issue I (2000): 1-3.

“Racial Dissonance/Canonical Texts: Teaching Early Modern Literature in the Late Twentieth Century.” Shakespeare Studies. Vol. XXVI (1998): 70-79.

“Shakespeare and the Politics of History.” History and Literature, March (1996): 78-85.
“Caliban Versus Miranda: Race and Gender Conflicts in Postcolonial Rewritings of The Tempest.” Feminist Readings of Early Modern Culture :Emerging Subjects. Ed. Valerie Traub, Lindsay Kaplan, and Dympna Callaghan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996: 191-209. Reprinted in Shakespeare’s Romances : New Casebooks. Ed. Alison Thorne. London: Palgrave, 2003: 205- 225.
“Othello's Identity: Postcolonial Theory and Contemporary African Rewritings of Othello.” Women, “Race,” and Writing in the Early Modern Period. Ed. Patricia Parker and Margo Hendricks. London: Routledge, 1994: 287-99.

Reprinted in Othello: New Casebooks. Ed. Lena Orlin. London: Palgrave, 2003: 171-190.
“Renaissance Antitheatricality, Antifeminism, and Shakespeare's Antony and

Cleopatra.” Renaissance Drama. Vol. XX (1989-90): 99-121. Reprinted in

Antony and Cleopatra: New Casebooks. Ed. John Drakakis. New York:

St. Martin's Press, 1994: 308-329.

“The Postmodern/Postcolonial Shakespeare.” Shakespeare: World Views. Ed. Robin Eaden, Madge Mitton, and Heather Kerr. University of

Delaware Press, 1994: 14-25.

“Different Shakespeares: The Bard in Colonial/Postcolonial India.” Theatre

Journal, December (1989): 445-58. Reprinted in Modern Indian Theatre. Ed. Nandi Bhatia. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.
“The Influence of Feminist Criticism/Theory on Shakespeare Studies –

1976-1986.” Reconsidering the Renaissance. Ed. Mario A. Di Cesare.

Binghamton: Medieval & Renaissance Texts, 1992: 381-93.
PUBLICATIONS: Reviews
Bernadette Andrea. Women and Islam in Early Modern Literature. Seventeenth Century News, February, 2010.
Imtiaz Habib. Black Lives in the English Archives, 1500-1677. Shakespeare Bulletin. 27.3: 534-36.
Dympna Callaghan. Shakespeare’s Sonnets. Shakespeare Quarterly, Volume 59, Number 4. Winter (2008): 491-93.
Ric Knowles. Toward A Material Theatre. GRAMMA: A Journal of Theory and Criticism. Vol. 15. (2008): 246-47.

Richmond Barbour. Before Orientalism: London’s Theatre of the East-1570-1626. University of Toronto Quarterly (2005): 407-409.

Thomas Cartelli. Repositioning Shakespeare: National Formations, Postcolonial Appropriations. ARIEL. Vol.31. January-April( 2000): 438-440.
Michelle Burnham. Captivity and Sentiment: Cultural Exchange in American

Literature 1682-1861. William and Mary Quarterly, April (1999): 442-444.

Margreta De Grazia, et. al. eds. Subject and Object in Renaissance Culture.

Shakespeare Quarterly, Fall (1998): 345-46.
John M. Archer. Sovereignty and Intelligence: Spying and Court Culture in the

English Renaissance. Renaissance Quarterly, Winter (1995): 865-66.
Vernon February. And Bid Him Sing: Essays in Literature and Cultural

Domination. Canadian Journal of African Studies, Spring (1991): 26-19.
Dympna Callaghan. Women and Gender in Renaissance Tragedy. Theatre

Journal. Vol. 43. May (1991): 275.
S. Vishwanathan, S. Nagarajan. Ed. Shakespeare in India. Theatre Journal. Vol. 41. March (1989): 113.
James Calderwood. If It Were Done: Macbeth and Tragic Action. Shakespeare

Quarterly, Summer (1989): 232-235.
INVITED LECTURES:
“Jahangir’s Mughal Court as a “Contact Zone:” Translation and Traffic in Early Anglo-Muslim Encounters.” Conference on the Seaborne Renaissance, Austin, University of Texas, February 6^th, 2010.
“Translation and Traffic in Early Anglo-Muslim Encounters.” Syracuse University, November 2^nd, 2009.
“The Idea of Rome in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar.” The Shakespeare Institute, Stratford Upon Avon, U.K. August 11^th 2009.
“Hakluyt’s Books and Hawkins’ Slaves.” Queen Mary, University of London,

January 27, 2008.

“The Early Modern Economies of Exchange in Shakespeare’s Cymbeline.” London Shakespeare Seminar, Institute of English Studies, London University, March 3, 2008.
“The Making of a Colonial Archive.” University of Kent, Canterbury, February 27, 2008.
“Translation/Transculturation.” Birkbeck College, University of London, March 17, 2008.
“The Politics of Empathy in Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra and King Lear.” Lafayette College, PA. October 23, 2006.
“Clothes, Climate and Gender Difference in Early Modern Colonial Encounters.” The Humanities Center, Harvard University, Cambridge Mass. October 19, 2006.
“Traveling Shakespeares in India: The Genesis of Habib Tanvir’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” Conference: Shakespeare in Asia. Stanford University, Palo Alto, April 1-4, 2004.
“Real and Imagined Indians: The Reproduction and Circulation of Theodore de Bry's Images of America in Early Modern Europe.” Conference: ‘Discovering the ‘Other,’ 800 -- 1660. University of Leicester, July 2-4 2004.
“Re-thinking Tragedy in Shakespeare’s King Lear and Antony and Cleopatra.”

Taliaferro Annual Shakespeare Lecture. University of Akron, April 2-3, 2003.

“Representing European ‘Others’ in the Early Modern Period.” Plenary Speaker, Re/Visioning the World: Traveling in ‘Old and ‘New’ Empires. University of Newcastle, May 23-25, 2003.
“Why Teach the Politics of Drama?” Symposium on Teaching Renaissance Drama. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, October 5-7, 2000.
“Disorientations of Nation-formation: The Discovery of England in the Travel Narratives of Edward Terry's Voyage to East India.” Early Modern Colloquium Series. University of Michigan Ann Arbor, April 13-14, 2000.
Jadavpur University, Calcutta, India. January 10 -- 19, 2000. Visiting Fellow,

Lectures on Postcolonial Theory and Renaissance Literature.

“Trading National Identity in Early Modern England: The Case of Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice.” University of California, San Diego. February 4, 1999.
“The ‘Spirit of the Gift’ and Early Modern Economies of Exchange.” University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, March 4, 1999.
“Resisting Shakespeare/Empire” Paper presented at the MSU conference on ‘Imperial and Postcolonial Studies.’ February 12, 1999.
“Who Speaks for the Nation? Trading National Identity in Early Modern England.” Plenary Speaker, Shakespeare Association of America Annual Meeting. Cleveland, March 19-21, 1998.

“Commodities for Christendom.” Folger Shakespeare Library, Colloquium Series. Washington D.C., February 15, 1997.

“African-American Race Studies and Postcolonial Theory.” Howard University, Department of English, Washington D.C., March 11, 1997.
“The Exchange of Goods and Bodies in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice.” Invited Speaker, University of Mississippi, Oxford, Miss., April 9-12, 1997.

“Shakespeare: Cross-cultural Perspectives.” Interview: Professor Peter Holland for the BBC. London, April 25, 1994.

“Shakespeare in India Revisited.” NEH seminar: “Shakespeare and the Designs of Empire,” Folger Shakespeare Library, April 15-16, 1993.
“Shakespeare as Empire.” Plenary Speaker, Australian and New Zealand Shakespeare Association, University of Adelaide, February 24-27, 1992.
“‘How the World Dreams itself to be American:’ Third World Intellectuals in the New World Order.” The Center for Language, Literature and Culture, Emory University, Atlanta, April 19, 1991.
“Shakespeare Studies/Cultural Studies.” Plenary Speaker, The Shakespeare Association of America Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, April 12-14, 1990.
“Colonialism, the Canon, and Shakespeare.” Drama Department, Smith College, April 18, 1989.
“Toward a Feminist Pedagogy.” Bowling Green State University, September 26, 1988.
CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS:
“Speaking in Indian Tongues: Translation and England’s Global Role in the Early Modern Period.” Modern Languages Association, Annual Convention, Philadelphia

December 27-30, 2009.

“The Making of a Colonial Archive: Hakluyt and the Hawkins’ Slave Voyages.” Conference on ‘Richard Hakluyt: Life, Times, Legacy, National Maritime Museum, London, May 17-19, 2008.
“Shakespeare and the Question of Value: Humanist, Postcolonial, and Trans-cultural Intersections.” Conference: Trans-national and Trans-cultural Exchange in Early Modern Drama, Kadir Has University. Istanbul, Turkey, May 16 –19, 2006.
“King James in the Mughal Court: Cross-Cultural Translations/Mediations in the Seventeenth Century.” The Renaissance Society of America, San Francisco, April 21-23, 2006.
“The Emotional Regime of Shakespeare’s Sonnets.” 6^th International Conference of the Hellenic Association of Greece, “Re-constructing Pain and Joy in Literature and Culture,” Athens, Greece, October 20-23, 2005.
“Gendered Representations of Labor: Response to Professor Michael Denning.” Conference: America and the Problem of Empire, Michigan State University, October 14-16, 2005.
“Clothes, Climate, and English Colonial Difference in the Early Modern Period.”

The Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, Cambridge, U.K. April 7-9, 2005.
“Slavery in the Elizabethan Imagination.” Sixteenth-Century Studies Annual Conference, Toronto, October 29 -31, 2004.
Respondent: “Native Shakespeares.” Midwest Conference on British Studies. Michigan State University, East Lansing, October 16-17, 2004.
“Shakespeare’s The Tempest and Language of Cartography.” Renaissance Society of America Annual Conference, Toronto, March 27-29, 2003.
“The Exchange of Goods and Bodies in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice.”

Conference: The Flesh Made Text, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece, May 14-17, 2003.
Chair, Seminar: “The Future of Postcolonial Studies.” International

Shakespeare Conference, Shakespeare Institute. Stratford-Upon-Avon, U.K., August 18-23, 2002.
“Discourses of English Nationalism and the Economies of Racial and Sexual Exchange: 1600-1625.” Conference: Changing States: Travel and Conversion in Early Modern Period, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, January 25, 2002.
“Struggle between Voice and Writing: Thomas Coryate’s Ventriloquism of the Natives.” Group of Early Modern Cultural Studies Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, November 15-18, 2001.
“Formations of Early Modern Eurocentrism: Edward Terry’s Voyage to East India-1655.” Conference: Between Empires: ‘Orientalism’ before 1600. Trinity College, Cambridge, U.K., July 12-15, 2001.
“Locating Caliban’s Island: The Language of Cartography and Cartography as Language in Seventeenth-Century European Culture and Literature.” Seminar on ‘Shakespeare in the Mediterranean,’ World Shakespeare Congress, Valencia, Spain, April 18-23, 2001.
Respondent: “Eastward Ho: Early Modern English Travel Writing.” MLA National Convention, Washington D.C., December 27-30, 2000.
“Travel Knowledge and Proto-Imperial Discourse.” Group of Early Modern Cultural Studies Annual Meeting, New Orleans, November 16-19, 2000.
“Whose Body?” Seminar on “Gender 2000.” The International Shakespeare Conference, Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-Upon-Avon, U.K., August 1-5, 2000.
“Gendered Gifts in Shakespeare’s Belmont.” Modern Languages Association Annual Convention, San Francisco, December 27-30, 1998.
“Post-feminism in Early Modern Studies." Group of Early Modern Studies, Annual Meeting, Newport, November 19-22, 1998.
“The Early Modern Colonial Scene of Writing.” Group of Early Modern Cultural Studies Annual Meeting, Chapel Hill, December 5-8, 1997.

“Consuming/Dismembering Shakespeare.” South Atlantic MLA Annual Meeting, Atlanta, November, 12-15, 1997.

“The Canonical Shakespeare in Postcolonial Studies.”

Shakespeare/Postcoloniality Conference,” University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, July 1-5, 1996.

Co-chair (with Martin Orkin), Seminar: “Postcolonial Shakespeare.” The World Shakespeare Congress, Los Angeles, April 7-14, 1996.

Co-chair (with Michael Neill), Seminar: “Shakespeare and History.” The Shakespeare Association of America, Annual Meeting, Chicago, March 23-27, 1995.
“Travel Narratives to Seventeenth-century India.” MLA National Convention., San Diego, December 27-30, 1994.
“Agency and Desire in The Winter’s Tale.” MLA Annual Convention, Toronto, December 27-30, 1993.
“Race and Gender Struggles in Shakespeare’s The Tempest.” Shakespeare Institute Annual Conference. Stratford-Upon-Avon, U.K., August 21-26, 1994.
“Reproducing/Teaching Renaissance Texts in a Post-Modern Culture.” Renaissance Society of America, Annual Meeting, Duke University, Durham, N.C., April 11-13, 1991.
“English Literature as an Instrument of Empire.” Association of Asian Studies Annual Conference, Austin, October 12-13, 1990.
“Third World Intellectuals as Native Informants: What Price Multiculturalism?” MLA Annual Convention, Chicago, December 27-30, 1990.
“Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra and Colonialist Discourse: Some Implications for Cultural Studies.” Conference of Comparative Literature, San Diego, March 7-9, 1991.
“Third World Intellectuals in First World Narratives: Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses.” Narrative Conference. New Orleans, April 5-7, 1990.
“The Popular Colonial Shakespeare.” MLA Annual Convention, Washington, D.C., December 28-30, 1989.
“Politicizing Shakespearean Pedagogy.” MLA Annual Convention, Washington, D.C., December 27-30, 1989.
“The Discourse of History in Shakespearean Feminism.” Conference on Feminism and Representation. Rhode Island College, April 20-22, 1989.
“Shakespearean Feminism and the Discourse of History.” NEMLA, March 31 - April 2, 1989.
“The Discourse of Colonialism in Shakespeare Studies.” Philological Association of the Pacific Coast, Oregon, November 11-12, 1988.
“Ideology of the Empire: Shakespeare in India.” New Languages for the Stage, University of Kansas, October 27-29, 1988.
“Renaissance Antitheatricality, Antifeminism, and Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra.” Southwest Regional Renaissance Conference, San Marino, California, April 14-16, 1988.
“The Poetics of Imitation in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida.” NEMLA. Providence, Rhode Island, March 24-26, 1987.
“The Influence of Feminist Criticism/Theory on Shakespeare Studies, 1976-1986.”Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Conference. SUNY, Binghamton, NY, October 16-18, 1987.
“Cleopatra’s Theatricality, Shakespeare's Theatre, and the Politics of Gender.” Central Renaissance Conference. St. Louis, March 26-28, 1987.
“The Re/presentation of the Feminine in Measure for Measure.” Shakespeare Association of America. Seminar on “Tragedy and Gender,” Seattle, Washington, April 9-11, 1987.
“Shakespeare’s Cleopatra: Performance as Power.” Conference: Women and Power.” Center for Medieval Studies, Fordham University, March 26-28, 1985.