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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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