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Su Fang Ng

Email Dr. Ng at ngsf@ou.edu

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Professor Ng specializes in early modern literature with a secondary interest in postcolonial literatures. Her book, Literature and the Politics of Family in Seventeenth-Century England (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2007), examines how the putatively conservative analogy between state and family was used for radical political ends. She has published essays on Aemilia Lanyer and early Stuart court patronage, the late medieval Bible translations of the Wycliffites and Tyndale, Quaker women, and postcolonial African and Southeast Asian nationalisms in ELH, Studies in Philology, The Seventeenth Century, the Journal of Commonwealth Literature, and an edited collection on postcolonial women writers. In postcolonial studies, she is particularly interested in Southeast Asian responses to Japanese imperialism. Bringing together interests in early modern England and in colonialism/postcolonialism, her second book project, Global Renaissance: Early Modern Classicism and Empire from the British Isles to the Malay Archipelago, explores how Greek and Roman models of empire became part of native histories of the early modern maritime kingdoms of England and in Southeast Asia. She teaches courses in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century British literature, early modern travel literature, early modern women writers, Shakespeare, Milton, and postcolonial literature.

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