NIAYESH Ladan

Jan 23, 2024

Ladan Niayesh

Présentation


Main research themes:

-Early modern English travel literature and travel history

-Islamic cultures and languages in the early modern period

-Material culture, diplomatic and commercial circuits

-Transculturality and identity

Supervision possibilities at  MA and PhD levels:

-Shakespeare and early modern drama (16th and early 17th century)

-Early modern travel writing and British early imperial history

-Britain and the Muslim east

Employment history:

-2012-present: Professor of English Studies, Université Paris Cité (ex-Paris Diderot)

-2000-2011: Lecturer, then Senior Lecturer, Université Paris Diderot

-1995-2000: Teaching Assistant, Université Montpellier 3

-1991-1992: French lectrice, Somerville College, Oxford

Studies :

-2010: Habilitation à diriger des recherches, Université Montpellier 3

-2000: PhD, Université Montpellier 3

-1995: MA in International Relations, Institut d’Etudes Politiques, Paris

-1993: Agrégation, English Literature

-1990: Concours d’entrée, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Fontenay – St Cloud

Current responsibilities:

-Member of the faculty council and university board, Université Paris Cité

-Co-head, with Fabien Simon, of the “Knowledge” cluster of ECHELLES (UMR 8264), a joint research unit of Université Paris Cité and the French Centre for Scientific Knowledge (CNRS)

-International Hakluyt Society council member and trustee

-Co-founder and co-general editor, with Laetitia Sansonetti, of the “Polyglot Encounters in Early Modern England” series, Brepols Publishers, https://www.brepols.net/series/peemb

-General editor of the “Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies” series of Manchester University Press, https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/series/seventeenth-eighteenth-century-studies

-Co-founder and board member of the Paris Early Modern Seminar, https://pems.hypotheses.org

 

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Autres publications

Selected publications:

  • Writing Distant Travels and Linguistic Otherness in Early Modern England (c. 1550-1660), ed. Chloë Houston, Sophie Lemercier-Goddard and Ladan Niayesh. Turnhout: Brepols, 2025. https://www.brepols.net/products/IS-9782503599632-1
  • Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique 29.3 (2024): special issue “Diplomatic Gifts and Countergifts between Britain and the Muslim East from the 17th to the Early 20th Century”, coedited with Stéphanie Prévost. https://journals.openedition.org/rfcb/12122?lang=fr
  • Astrolabe 49 (2020): special issue on “Captain Cook after 250 Years: Re-exploring the Voyages of James Cook”, https://astrolabe.msh.uca.fr/captain-cook-after-250-years-re-exploring-voyages-james-cook-avril-2020, coedited with Pierre Lurbe and Emmanuelle Péraldo.
  • Eastern Resonances in Early Modern England: Receptions and Transformations from the Renaissance to the Romantic Period, ed. Claire Gallien and Ladan Niayesh. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
  • Three Romances of Eastern Conquest: Alphonsus, King of Aragon by Robert Greene, Soliman and Perseda by Thomas Kyd, The Four Prentices of London by Thomas Heywood. ‘Revels Plays Companion Library Series’. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2018.
  • A Knight’s Legacy: Mandeville and Mandevillian Lore in Early Modern England. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2011.
  • Aux Frontières de l’humain : figures du cannibalisme dans le théâtre anglais de la Renaissance. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2009.

 

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