Pompa Banerjee, Associate Professor

Interests

The English Renaissance, early modern culture, women in the Renaissance, European witchcraft, early modern travel narratives.

Courses Taught Frequently

Shakespeare, Milton, The English Renaissance, Renaissance "Other," Shakespeare and History, Strangers Within, Great Works in British and American literature, Introduction to Literature, International Short Story.

Selected Publications

Book:

Burning Women: Widows, Witches, and Early Modern European Travel Narratives of India. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003

Essays:

2008 "Convents, Harems, and Abbé Carré’s le Courier de l’Orient" In Emissaries in Early Modern Literature. Ashgate, 2008, Forthcoming.

2007-2008 "Postcards from the Harem: The Cultural Translation of Niccolao Manucci’s Book of Travels." In The "Book" of Travels: Genre, Ethnology, and Pilgrimage 1250-1650.Ed. Palmira Brummett. Brill, 2007. Forthcoming.

2005 "The White Othello: Turkey and Virginia in John Smith's True Travels," in Envisioning an English Empire: Jamestown and the Emergence of the North Atlantic World, ed. Robert Appelbaum and John Wood Sweet. University of Pennsylvania Press. 135-151

2002 "The Gift: Economies of Kinship and Sacrificial Desire in 'Tis Pity She’s a Whore." Studies in the Humanities 29: 2 (2002): 137-49.

2000 "Hard to Swallow: Women, Poison, and Hindu Widowburning, 1500-1700." Continuity and Change 15:2 (2000): 187-207.

1999 "Milton’s India and Paradise Lost." Milton Studies 37, ed. Albert C. Labriola (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1999): 142-65.

1999 "Burning Questions: Widows, Witches, and Early Modern European Travel Narratives of India." Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 29:3 (Fall 1999): 529-561.

1993 "'I, Mephastophilis': Self, Other, and Demonic Parody in Marlowe's Doctor Faustus." Christianity and Literature 42.2:  221-241.