Deyasini (better known as Deya) is an enthusiast of all things early modern, including and especially the ways in which "monstrosity" is constructed and circulated in the popular imagination of the period. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Journal of Early Modern Cultural Studies, the Shakespearean International Yearbook, the Oxford Handbook of Disability and Literatures in English: 1500-1700, Neurodiversity in Early Modern England, Early Modern Trans Drama, The Oxford Handbook of Disability amongst others. At WSU, she teaches courses featuring canonical authors including Shakespeare, Spenser, Milton (plus some relatively less known ones!). Prior to arriving in Pullman, she held the Arts & Sciences postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Toronto in Canada, working with Dr. Katherine Schaap Williams in the Department of English on the St. George campus. She has a PhD in English from Syracuse University, NY, having completed a dissertation titled "'Rude, Misshapen, Monstrous Rablement'" under the care-ful guidance of Dr. Stephanie Shirilan, and a fabulous committee comprising of Dympna Callaghan, Crystal Bartolovich, Scott Stevens, and Katherine Williams. In what feels like a different lifetime, she was a student of Jadavpur University, Kolkata, an institution she accredits with inspiring an enduring, albeit complicated, relationship with the early modern past and its contemporary presence.
Deyasini (better known as Deya) is an enthusiast of all things early modern, including and especially the ways in which "monstrosity" is constructed and circulated in the popular imagination of the period. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Journal of Early Modern Cultural Studies, the Shakespearean International Yearbook, the Oxford Handbook of Disability and Literatures in English: 1500-1700, Neurodiversity in Early Modern England, Early Modern Trans Drama, The Oxford Handbook of Disability amongst others. At WSU, she teaches courses featuring canonical authors including Shakespeare, Spenser, Milton (plus some relatively less known ones!). Prior to arriving in Pullman, she held the Arts & Sciences postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Toronto in Canada, working with Dr. Katherine Schaap Williams in the Department of English on the St. George campus. She has a PhD in English from Syracuse University, NY, having completed a dissertation titled "'Rude, Misshapen, Monstrous Rablement'" under the care-ful guidance of Dr. Stephanie Shirilan, and a fabulous committee comprising of Dympna Callaghan, Crystal Bartolovich, Scott Stevens, and Katherine Williams. In what feels like a different lifetime, she was a student of Jadavpur University, Kolkata, an institution she accredits with inspiring an enduring, albeit complicated, relationship with the early modern past and its contemporary presence.