Anita Raychawdhuri
  • Office:
    South Hall 2432-H
  • Office Hours:
    Please email for appointment.

Anita Raychawdhuri is interested in how queerness and race interacted and informed each other in early modern drama. Her dissertation is primarily concerned with the formation of the ideal English subject in the early modern period, a subjectivity that is predicated on whiteness. She explores how, in early modern performance, queer experiences, performances, and feelings might challenge, even if sometimes incoherently, nation building and colonial logic.

 

Research Areas

  • c. 1500 and earlier
  • c. 1500-1800
  • Genders and Sexualities

Research Center Affiliations

Anita Raychawdhuri
  • Office:
    South Hall 2432-H
  • Office Hours:
    Please email for appointment.
  • Fax:
    (805) 893-4622
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  • Mailing Address:
    English Department UC Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106-3170