Amrita Sen

Dr. Amrita Sen is Associate Professor and Deputy Director, UGC-HRDC, University of Calcutta, and affiliated member of the Department of English. She completed her PhD in English from Michigan State University and was previously Associate Professor of English at Oklahoma City University (USA). She has edited Digital Shakespeares from the Global South (Palgrave Macmillan 2022) and is co-editor of Early Modern Performance Beyond the Public Stage: Extra-Theatrical Forms and Spaces (Arden Shakespeare 2025), Shakespeare in the ‘Post’ Colonies: Legacies, Cultures and Social Justice (Arden Shakespeare 2025), and Civic Performance: Pageantry and Entertainments in Early Modern London (Routledge 2020), and a special issue on “Shakespeare in Undivided Bengal,” for Borrowers and Lenders: A Journal of Shakespeare Appropriation (2024) and a special issue of the Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies on “Alternative Histories of the East India Company” (2017). Her research focuses on the early activities of the East India Company, early modern drama, and Shakespeare adaptations. She has also published essays and book chapters on East India Company women, Bollywood Shakespeares, and early modern ethnography. Her current project looks at representations of the East Indies on the English stage.

Contact: dr.amritasen.earlymodern@gmail.com