A Companion to the Global Renaissance

Ann Rosalind Jonesis Esther Cloudman Dunn Professor Emerita of Comparative Literature at Smith College, where she taught with colleagues in national language and literature departments, art history and film studies. Her early research, The Currency of Eros (University of Indiana Press, 1990), focused on the social situations and intertextual poetics of sixteenth-century women writing lyrics and polemics in Western Europe. That work, especially its debates about women’s orderly and disorderly use of clothing, led her to explore material culture, specifically the political and cultural meanings of dress. With Peter Stallybrass, she wrote Renaissance Clothing and the Materials of Memory (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000); with Margaret Rosenthal, she translated Cesare Vecellio’s Habiti antichi e moderni di diverse parti del Mondo (Clothing, Ancient and Modern, of Various Parts of the World) . She has published on imperial and colonial histories related to her current project, a study of Vecellio’s genre: the illustrated costume book, widely published in the printing centers of Europe from the mid-sixteenth to mid-seventeenth century, which represented the clothing worn by people of diverse ranks and regions as the embodiment of moral and political ideologies central to their cultures in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas.

Gerald MacLeanis Emeritus Professor of the University of Exeter, UK (2007–2014). A literary and cultural historian, since 2000 MacLean has published widely on relations between early-modern Britain and the Islamic world, especially the Ottoman Empire. He is author, most recently, of Abdullah Gül and The Making of the New Turkey (Oneworld, 2014), Looking East: English Writing and the Ottoman Empire before 1800 (Palgrave 2007; Turkish trans. 2009), and The Rise of Oriental Travel: English Visitors to the Ottoman Empire, 1580–1720 (Palgrave, 2004; Turkish trans. 2006, 2017). With Nabil Matar he is coauthor of Britain and the Islamic World, 1558–1713 (Oxford University Press, 2011), and with Donna Landry he coauthored Materialist Feminisms (Blackwell, 1993). Among other books, critical editions, and multiauthor volumes, MacLean is most recently editor of Britain and the Muslim World: Historical Perspectives (Cambridge Scholars, 2012), Writing Turkey: Explorations in Turkish History, Politics and Cultural Identity (Middlesex University Press, 2006), and Re-orienting the Renaissance (Palgrave, 2005). With Ercihan Dilari, Caroline Finkel, and Donna Landry, he is a founding member of the Evliya Çelebi Way Project, which established a UNESCO-approved equestrian cultural route in Western Anatolia. He is currently writing about Britain and the Kurds.

Stuart M. McManusis a historian and classicist working on premodern culture from a global and multiethnic perspective. He received his PhD in history (secondary field in classical philology) from Harvard and is currently Assistant Professor of Premodern World History at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Prior to this, he taught Mexican and ancient Mediterranean history at the University of Chicago, where he was the inaugural postdoctoral fellow at the Institute on the Formation of Knowledge. During the 2019–2020 academic year, he was a visiting scholar at Princeton’s Davis Center for Historical Studies.

João Vicente Melois a cultural historian who works on early modern cross-cultural encounters and diplomacy. His research interests include diplomatic rituals, early modern European ethnographic production about South Asia and Africa, religious missions, and the European presence in the Mughal court. He is a JIN research fellow at University Pablo de Olavide, Seville, Spain. He is currently finishing a comparative history of the experiences of Jesuit missionaries and English agents at the Mughal court between 1580 and 1615. His published work includes the following articles: “Respect and Superiority: The Ceremonial Rules of Goan Diplomacy and the Survival of the Estado da Índia, 1707–50,” Portuguese Studies , 28/2 (2012), 143–158; “Seeking Prestige and Survival: Gift-exchange Practices between the Portuguese Estado da Índia and Asian Rulers,” in Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient , 56.4/5 (2013), 672–695; and “In Search of a Shared Language: The Goan Diplomatic Protocol,” Journal of Early Modern History , 20.4 (2016), 390–407. He is currently completing a translation of the writings of Antoni de Monserrate, SJ on his stay at the Mughal Court.

David Morrowis Associate Professor at the College of Saint Rose in Albany, New York. His essay on Thomas Deloney was published in Textual Practice in 2006; another on early seventeenth-century monopolistic merchants appeared in Global Traffic (Palgrave, 2008), edited by Barbara Sebek and Stephen Deng. His current project takes an ecocritical look at how early modern English writing interpreted primitive accumulation.

Ladan Niayeshis Professor of Early Modern Studies at the University of Paris and a member of the LARCA research center of the CNRS UMR 8225 (Laboratoire de Recherche sur les Cultures Anglophones ). Her research focuses on early-modern travel writing and travel drama, more specifically in connection to Muscovy and Persia. Her latest publications include Three Romances of Eastern Conquest (Manchester University Press, 2018) and Eastern Resonances (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), coedited with Claire Gallien. She currently coedits the Persian travels of the Sherley brothers with Kurosh Meshkat and Alasdair MacDonald for the Hakluyt Society.

Ayesha Ramachandranis Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and an affiliate of the Programs in Renaissance Studies and the History of Science and Medicine at Yale University. Her first prizewinning book, The Worldmakers (University of Chicago Press, 2015), provides a cultural and intellectual history of “the world,” showing how it emerged as a cultural keyword in early modernity. She has also published on Spenser, Lucretius, Ariosto, Tasso, Petrarch, Montaigne, postcolonial drama, and the histories of religious fundamentalism and cosmopolitanism in various journals and volumes including NLH, Spenser Studies, MLN, Forum Italicum , and Anglistik . Her current projects range from new research on early modern and contemporary South Asia to work on comparative philology, cartography, oral history, and lyric studies. Her new book manuscript in progress is tentatively titled Lyric Thinking: Towards a Global Poetic .

Catherine Ryuis Associate Professor of Japanese Language and Culture and director of the Japanese Studies Program at Michigan State University. She received her PhD at the University of Michigan, and her teaching and research interests include classical Japanese, Heian women’s narratives, Japanese culture and literature, Korean literature, zainichi (Korean residents in Japan) literature, game studies, translation studies, children’s literature, digital humanities, and global studies. She also holds a US patent for a language-learning platform and is the principal investigator of Mandarin Chinese tone perception projects and the team lead for Tone Perfect, a multimodal Mandarin Chinese audio database ( https://toneperfect.lib.msu.edu).

Barbara Sebekis Professor of English at Colorado State University. Her most recent essay, “Edmund Hosts William: appropriation, polytemporality, and postcoloniality in Frank McGuinness’s Mutabilitie,” appears in The Routledge Handbook of Shakespeare and Global Appropriation (2020). Other globally inflected publications include “Quickly, Archy, and the Citizens’ Wives, OR, How to Talk to an Elephant” in Early Modern Culture (2017) http://tigerprints.clemson.edu/emc/vol12/iss1/4, “Global Consciousness, English Histories” in Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare’s Histories (MLA, 2017), “‘Wine and sugar of the best and the fairest’: Canary, the Canaries, and the Global in Windsor” in Culinary Shakespeare (Duquesne University Press, 2016), “Different Shakespeares: Thinking Globally in an Early Modern Literature Course” in Teaching Medieval and Early Modern Cross-Cultural Encounters (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), and “‘More natural to the nation’: Situating Shakespeare in the ‘Querelle de Canary,’” in Shakespeare Studies (2014). She is also coeditor (with Stephen Deng) of Global Traffic: Discourses and Practices of Trade in English Literature and Culture from 1550 to 1700 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008).