Deyasini Dasgupta

I am currently working on my first monograph on the uses and limitations of "monstrosity" in the premodern world. A study of literature, performance cultures, and the history of medicine in the early modern period, this monograph explores formulations of moral deviance, aberrant desire, sensory and affective (in)capacities through lived experiences of alterity. Through the sustained interweaving of theoretical frameworks drawn from premodern critical race, disability, and gender studies, this book provides fresh insights into the overdetermined categories for early modern "otherness." My articles, book review essays, and other works have been published or are forthcoming with the Shakespeare International Yearbook, Renaissance Studies, Palgrave MacMillan, JEMCS, and ACMRS Press.

List of Publications

• “‘What’s with him?’: Reading Hamlet and Haider through the Lens of Disability-Craft,” in Disability Performance and Global Shakespeare, ed. Katherine Schaap Williams, Shakespeare International Yearbook, New York: Routledge, 2024. 
• “Black, Wicked, and Unnatural’: Locating the Monstrous ‘Other’ in Middleton’s The Revenger’s Tragedy,” in The Theatrical Legacy of Thomas Middleton, ed. William Green, Anna Hegland, and Sam Jermy, Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture, New York: Routledge, 2024.
• “Disability Gain, Aesthetics, and Inclusion: What does it mean to experience disability in early modern England?,” Renaissance Studies, Vol 37, No 3, June 2023 (2022), pp. 447-454,
• Review of Jennifer Drouin, Shakespeare/Sex: Contemporary Readings in Gender and Sexuality, Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 76, No. 1, Spring 2023, pp. 354-356. 
• “Mary Forster,” The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Early Modern Women’s Writing, ed. Rosalind Smith and Patricia Pender, Cambridge: Palgrave MacMillan, 2022 (2021), 
• Interview with Carol Mejia LaPerle, “How Does Race Feel,” The Sundial, ACMRS Press, March 29, 2022,