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Subha Mukherji is Professor of Early Modern Literature and Culture. She was educated in Kolkata (where she grew up), Oxford and Cambridge.

Since her influential book on Renaissance law and drama, and her edited volumes on tragicomedy, the poetics of thresholds, and fictions of knowledge, her research interests have converged on directing a major 5-year interdisciplinary research project funded by a Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council: Crossroads of Knowledge in Early Modern England: the Place of Literature - a radical revisioning of early modern knowledge (http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/programmes/crossroads). 

She is writing a book on Knowing Encounters: Questioning Knowledge in Early Modern Literature. She is General Editor of the project-dedicated series of volumes: Crossroads of Knowledge in Early Modern England, with Palgrave. Her recent publications include a dialogic volume, Blind Spots of Knowledge in Shakespeare and his World: a Conversation (2019), and the co-edited volumes Literature, Belief and Knowledge in Early Modern England: Knowing Faith (2018) and Economies of Literature and Knowledge in Early Modern Europe: Change and Exchange (2020). Her latest essay, “‘Those are pearls’: Transformation, Translation and Exchange in the Early Modern Imagination”, is forthcoming in Patrick McGrath and Regina Schwartz, eds, On Sacramental Poetics (University of Notre Dame Press, 2021). 

Parallelly, her interest in migration studies, which was developed through an event she co-organised in September 2019 at Fitzwilliam College and Kettle’s Yard Gallery, on Migrant Knowledge: Early Modern and Beyond, is pointing towards her next book-project, Estranging the Renaissance. Her other research interests include contemporary Indian art, and the poetics of disproportion in early modern culture.

She conceived and co-curated the exhibition, Renaissance Spaces of Knowing: Privacy and Performance, which can be accessed here.

She also conceived and co-convened a radically interdisciplinary event on Migrant Knowledge, Early Modern and Beyond, in September 2019, bringing together scholars, activists and artists. Links to a documentary on the event are here.

https://youtu.be/rOJ117-BA-g

Related link to event webpage: http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28626

Cambridge Admissions Office (CAO) film on English at Cambridge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bolBo6nbN0Y

Hurst Visiting Professorial Lecture: https://english.wustl.edu/events/visiting-hurst-professor-subha-mukherji-lecture