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Ayesha Ramachandran is an Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Yale University, specializing in early modern European literature and cultural history. Her research examines transnational encounters, globalization, and the interplay between literature, science, and visual culture. She holds affiliations with the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and actively participates in interdisciplinary initiatives.
Her first major work, The Worldmakers (2015), won prestigious awards including the MLA Scaglione Prize and the Sixteenth Century Studies Association’s Founder’s Prize. Current projects explore lyric form’s role in shaping selfhood and modernity, bridging early modern and modernist writing. Supported by a Mellon New Directions Fellowship (2016), she expands her work into Persian and South Asian materials.
Teaching spans comparative literature, maps in literary imagination, skepticism, and race/class/gender studies. Notable courses include co-taught seminars on modernities and critical theory. Recognized with the Poorvu Family Award for Interdisciplinary Teaching (2016), she emphasizes collaborative and visually engaged pedagogy.
Her scholarship integrates global perspectives, with recent publications addressing African and Asian influences on Renaissance studies, lyric poetry’s philosophical dimensions, and early modern epistemologies. Awards reflect her impact on comparative literature, while her Mellon-funded research highlights methodological innovation.
