Ayesha Ramachandran is an assistant professor of comparative literature at 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 has published articles on Spenser, Lucretius, Tasso, Petrarch, Montaigne, and on postcolonial drama. She was awarded a Junior Fellowship at the Harvard Society of Fellows in 2007.
