Deyasini Dasgupta

Biography

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Deyasini (Deya) Dasgupta is an Assistant Professor of English at Washington State University, where she currently teaches courses including “Traditions of Comedy and Tragedy in the Age of Shakespeare” and “Shakespearean Drama after 1600”. She is presently working on her first monograph on early modern monstrosity, interrogating the feelings evoked by alterity through the lens of premodern critical race, disability, and trans studies. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Journal of Early Modern Cultural Studies, the Shakespearean International Yearbook, the Oxford Handbook of Disabilities and Literature in English, Neurodiversity in Early Modern Britain, and Early Modern Trans Drama, amongst others. Before arriving in Pullman, she held the Arts & Sciences postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Toronto in Canada. She has a PhD in English from Syracuse University, NY, and a BA as well as MA in English from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India.

Articles in Refereed Publications and Edited Collections

• “‘Arm Thy Heart and Fit Thy Thought’: Thinking through Trauma and Racecraft in Titus Andronicus,” in Neurodiversity in Early Modern Britain, ed. Bradley Irish, Laura Seymour, and Bridget Bartlett, Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Press, forthcoming.
• “‘We Must Coin’: Normativity and the Properties of Whiteness in Middleton’s The Revenger’s Tragedy.” In “Dis/Ability and Racial Capitalism” special issue, ed. Andrew Bozio and Penelope Geng, in The Journal of Early Modern Cultural Studies, Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania Press, forthcoming.
• “Man, Woman, or What You Will’: Vocabularies of Race, Gender, & Disability in Love’s Cure, or the Martial Maid.” In Early Modern Trans Drama, ed. Sawyer Kemp and Simone Chess, Arizona: ACMRS Press, forthcoming.
• “‘What’s with him?’: Reading Hamlet and Haider through the Lens of Disability-Craft.” in “Disability Performance and Global Shakespeare” special issue, ed. Katherine Schaap Williams, Shakespeare International Yearbook (*See disclaimer), New York: Routledge, 2024.
• “Black, Wicked, and Unnatural’: Locating the Monstrous ‘Other’ in Middleton’s The Revenger’s Tragedy,” (*See disclaimer) in The Theatrical Legacy of Thomas Middleton, ed. William Green, Anna Hegland, and Sam Jermy, Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture, New York: Routledge, 2024.

Book Review Essays and Other Publications

• “Disability Gain, Aesthetics, and Inclusion,” (*See disclaimer) in Renaissance Studies 37, no. 6 (2023): 447-454.
• Review of Jennifer Drouin, (*See disclaimer) in Shakespeare/Sex: Contemporary Readings in Gender and Sexuality, in Renaissance Quarterly 76, no. 1 (2023): 354-356.
• “Mary Forster,” (*See disclaimer) in The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Early Modern Women’s Writing, ed. Rosalind Smith and Patricia Pender (Cham: Palgrave MacMillan, 2022).
• “How does Race Feel?” (*See disclaimer) Interview with Carol Mejia LaPerle, in The Sundial, ACMRS Press.

Awards, Fellowships, and Grants

• Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council Institutional Grant from the Government of Canada
• Honorariums and Grants-in-Aid from the Folger Institute
• Humanities Center Dissertation Fellowship from Syracuse University
• University Fellowship from Syracuse University
• Dissertation Fellowship from Syracuse University
• Travel Awards from professional organizations such as the MLA, RSA, SAA, and institutions including the ACMRS at ASU, the department of English at Syracuse University, and the department of English at the University of Toronto

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