We are delighted to announce two of our keynote speakers – with more to come!
Nandini Das
Nandini Das is Professor of Early Modern English Literature and Culture and Fellow of Exeter College at the University of Oxford. She is a scholar of literature, travel, migration, and cross-cultural encounters, and has published widely on these topics. 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, and as project director for the ‘Travel, Transculturality and Identity in Early Modern England’ (ERC-TIDE) project, she has co-written and edited Keywords of Identity and Lives in Transit, about early modern English concepts around identity and race and the lives they touched. In May 2026, Professor Das published This Little World, a new history of Tudor and Stuart England from the perspective of those moving in and out of the country. Her most recent previous book, Courting India: England, Mughal India, and the Origins of Empire, was the Spectator, Prospect, and History Today Book of the Year in 2023, longlisted for the Cundhill Prize, shortlisted for the Duff Cooper and Wolfson History Prizes, and received the 2023 British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding. She is currently editing Cymbeline for the Fourth Series of Arden Shakespeare, as well as the Elizabethan Levant Trade and South Asia volume in the forthcoming Oxford edition of Richard Hakluyt’s Principal Navigations (1598-1600), and the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Travel, Race and Identity in Early Modern England. A BBC New Generation Thinker, she regularly presents television and radio programmes on her research.
Vanessa I. Corredera
Vanessa I. Corredera is Professor of English at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. Her research focuses on representations of race, gender, and sexuality in the afterlives of Shakespeare’s works, most especially in performance and popular culture. Significant publications include her monograph, Reanimating Shakespeare’s Othello in Post-Racial America (Edinburgh UP), as well as the co-edited collections Shakespeare Race, and Anglophone Popular Culture (Bloomsbury), “What Country, Friend, is This?” Shakespeare and the Staging of Exile (ACMRS Press), and Shakespeare and Cultural Appropriation (Routledge). She is anticipating the forthcoming publication of a co-edited anthology, Shakespeare Refracted: Five Plays by Caridad Svich (Methuen). She has served as a trustee of the Shakespeare Association of America and as a former General Editor of Borrowers and Lenders. Currently, she is one of the General Editors of Shakespeare Quarterly.