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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. She teaches courses in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century British literature, early modern travel literature, early modern women writers, Shakespeare, Milton, and postcolonial literature.  Her book, Literature and the Politics of Family in Seventeenth-Century England (Cambridge University Press, 2007), examines how the putatively conservative analogy between state and family was used for radical political ends. She has published essays on eastern and western versions of Alexander the Great, 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 Comparative Literature, ELH, Studies in Philology, The Seventeenth Century, the Journal of Commonwealth Literature, and an edited collection on postcolonial women writers.  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.  Her work has been supported by grants and fellowships from the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University, the National Humanities Center, the Oklahoma Humanities Council, the American Philosophical Society and the British Academy.  In 2009-2010, she will be a Harrington Faculty Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin.


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