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Dr. Brinda Charry

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Professor
English
Parker Hall 209 • M/S 1402
(603) 358-2695

Degrees & Credentials: PhD, Syracuse University; M Phil, MA, and BA, Bangalore University (India)

Professional interests: English Renaissance literature, Shakespeare, post-colonial theory, fiction writing.

Awards & Accolades: Folger Shakespeare Library Research Fellowship, India Plaza Golden Quill Award for Fiction, Katha Award for Creative Fiction, BBC Short-story Prize

Brinda Charry was born and raised in India, and completed her doctoral degree at Syracuse University, NY before coming to Keene in 2005 to teach early modern British literature and culture and creative writing. Her areas of research and scholarship include Shakespeare, intercultural encounters in the 16th and 17th centuries, and constructions of race and religious difference in the time period. She is the author of "The Tempest :The Critical Tradition," (2022), "The Arden Guide to Renaissance Drama" (2017), "The Tempest - Language and Writing" (2013), and "Emissaries in Early Modern Literature and Culture , 1500-1700"(co-edited with Gitanjali Shahani) (2009). Her book-length published fiction includes two novels, "The Hottest Day of the Year" and "Naked in the Wind," as well as a collection of short-stories, "First Love."

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