| Ayesha Ramachandran received her BA from
Smith College and her PhD in Renaissance Studies from Yale University.
Her research and teaching focus on the literature and culture of the
sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, primarily on Europe's relations
with an expanding world. She is currently working on a book-length
study, The World-Makers: Poetic Knowledge and Global
Challenges, 1580-1700, which explores
the reshaping of the concept "world" in the early modern period and its
implications for theories of modernity across a range of disciplines,
including geography and cartography, natural and moral philosophy,
political theory, theology and poetry. A new, related project examines
the impact of a changing world picture in cross-cultural context,
drawing on case studies from the Americas and the Indo-Islamic world to
interrogate the category 'early modernity' itself. In addition, she
also writes about and teaches courses on interdisciplinarity and
literary study, postcolonial literature, new media studies and
intersections between science and literature. She was awarded a Junior
Fellowship at the Harvard Society of Fellows in 2007. |
Ayesha Ramachandran
Assistant Professor.
PhD, Yale University. Early modern poetry and prose;
continental influences on the English renaissance; history of ideas,
especially political theory and
aesthetics (16th to 18th centuries); history of science and philosophy
(Montaigne to Leibniz); contemporary philosophy.
1087 Humanities: TU 2:30-4:00, TH 4:00-5:30 & by appt
ayesha.ramachandran@stonybrook.edu
1087 Humanities: TU 2:30-4:00, TH 4:00-5:30 & by appt
ayesha.ramachandran@stonybrook.edu
Courses:
Spring 2011
- EGL 620: Genres of Professional Writing
Selected Publications:
- “Mutabilitie’s Lucretian Metaphysics: Skepticism and Cosmic Process in Spenser’s Cantos,” in Celebrating Mutabilitie: Essays on Edmund Spenser’s Mutabilitie Cantos, edited by Jane Grogan. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2010, 220-245.
- "Edmund Spenser, Lucretian Neoplatonist: Cosmology in the Fowre Hymnes," in Spenser and Platonism: An Expanded Special Volume, edited by Kenneth Borris, Carol Kaske and Jon Quitslund, Spenser Studies XXIV (2009): 373-411.
- “Tasso’s Petrarch: The Lyric Means to Epic Ends,” MLN: Modern Language Notes, 122.1 (January 2007): 186-208.
- “Clarion in the Bower of Bliss: Poetry and Politics in Spenser’s Muiopotmos” Spenser Studies XX (2005): 77-106.
- “New World, No World: Seeking Utopia in Padmanabhan’s Harvest.” Theatre Research International 30.2 (July 2005): 161-74.