Deyasini is currently working on a number of different projects that rest at the intersections of premodern disability and race theory; her growing interest in neurodiversity studies is an off-shoot of this work, as are the essays on gender and identity. In prioritizing the figure of the "monster" in all its various manifestations in this particular moment of history, she hopes to demonstrate not just what it means to inhabit monstrosity in this period but also understand the very feelings that underly its figurative and representational logics. She is presently also exploring some of the joys of co-writing, while actively thinking aboout strategies for undergrade and graduate student mentees to use in their own projects!
ESSAYS & CHAPTERS (Selections)
“‘Strangeliest Carried’: Racial Capitalism and Disability Logics in Middleton’s Revenger’s Tragedy.” Dis/Ability and Racial Capitalism, special issue of Journal of Early Modern Cultural Studies, eds. Andrew Bozio and Penelope Geng, vol. 25, no. 1, forthcoming Oct 2026.
“‘What’s with him?’: Reading Hamlet and Haider through the Lens of Disability-Craft.” Disability Performance and Global Shakespeare, special issue of Shakespeare International Yearbook, ed. Katherine Schaap Williams, Routledge, 2024, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781032649238.
“‘Arm Thy Heart and Fit Thy Thought’: Thinking through Trauma and Racecraft in Titus Andronicus.” Neurodiversity in Early Modern English Literature, eds. Bradley Irish, Laura Seymour, and Bridget Bartlett, Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming.
“‘Man, Woman, or What You Will’: Vocabularies of Race, Gender, & Disability in Love’s Cure, or the Martial Maid.” Early Modern Trans Drama, eds. Sawyer Kemp and Simone Chess, ACMRS Press, forthcoming.
“Black, Wicked, and Unnatural’: Locating the Monstrous ‘Other’ in Middleton’s The Revenger’s Tragedy.” The Theatrical Legacy of Thomas Middleton, eds. William Green, Anna Hegland, and Sam Jermy, Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture, Routledge, 2024, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003431411-9.
BOOK REVIEW ESSAY
“Disability Gain, Aesthetics, and Inclusion: What does it mean to experience disability in early modern England?” Renaissance Studies vol. 37, no. 6, 2023, pp. 447-454, https://doi.org/10.1111/rest.12823.
BOOK REVIEWS
Review of Jennifer Drouin, ed., Shakespeare/Sex: Contemporary Readings in Gender and Sexuality, Renaissance Quarterly vol. 76, no. 1, 2023, pp. 354-356, https://doi.org/10.1017/rqx.2023.194.
OTHER WRITING
“Mary Forster.” The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Early Modern Women’s Writing, eds. Rosalind Smith and Patricia Pender, Palgrave MacMillan, 2022, www.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01537-4_173-1.
“How Does Race Feel?”. Interview with Carol Mejia LaPerle, The Sundial, ACMRS Press, 29 March 2022, www.medium.com/the-sundial-acmrs/how-does-race-feel-an-interview-with-carol-mejia-laperle-7be559abd658.
UNDER REVIEW
(Cowritten with Bradley J. Irish) “Neurodiversity and Shakespeare: Disability, Difference, and Monstrosity in King Lear.” Submitted and awaiting review.
“Disability, Race, and ‘Turning Monster’.” The Oxford Handbook of Disability and Literatures in English: 1500-1700, eds. Elizabeth Bearden and Katherine Schaap Williams, Oxford University Press, expected publication Spring 2027. Invited contribution under contract.
IN PROGRESS
“Concepts: Empire, Race, and Environmental Justice.” The Cambridge Companion to Early Modern Literature and the Environment, eds. Katherine Steele Brokaw, Rob Conkie, and Amrita Dhar, Cambridge University Press, expected publication December 2027. Invited contribution currently under contract.
[Untitled] First book project on early modern monstrosity.