Nandini Das

"Nandini Das is Professor of Early Modern Literature and Culture at Oxford University, Fellow of Exeter College, and Honorary Professor of English Literature at the University of Liverpool. She studied English at Jadavpur University, India, before going to the UK as a Rhodes Scholar to read English at University College, Oxford, followed by a doctorate at Trinity College, Cambridge. Among her books are Renaissance Romance: The Transformation of English Prose Fiction, 1570-1620 (2011) and The Cambridge History of Travel Writing (2019), co-edited with Tim Youngs. Her most recent book, Courting India: England, Mughal India, and the Origins of Empire, received the 2023 British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding. "