English Department Faculty

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 in England, France and Italy; more recently, however, she has been fascinated by imagined lands, global connections, and networks of exchange across the early modern world. Current projects include a book-length study provisionally entitled, The World-Makers: Poets and Philosophers, 1580-1700, as well as articles on "atheism" in
sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century literature; on North's translation of Doni's version of the Panchatantra; and on cartographic representations of the world in early modern Europe, the Ottoman and Mughal empires. 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; T 11-12 and Th 2:30-4:30
ayesha.ramachandran@stonybrook.edu

Courses:

Fall 2009

Literary Analysis and Argumentation (EGL 204)
Interdisciplinarity and Literary Study (EGL 603/CLT 602)

Selected Publications:

"Edmund Spenser, Lucretian Neoplatonist:
Cosmology in the Fowre Hymnes," forthcoming in a special issue of Spenser Studies on Spenser and Neoplatonism (2010).
“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.