Dr Iman Sheeha
Senior Lecturer in Shakespeare and Early Modern Literature
Gaskell Building 141
- Email: iman.sheeha@brunel.ac.uk
- Tel: +44 (0)1895 267233
- English
- English and Creative Writing
Summary
I have wide-ranging interests within the fields of Shakespeare and Early Modern Literature, including gender, race, devotional literature, service, and domesticity. I welcome PhD candidates working on these and related topics.
My book, (2020) is available from Routledge.
My second book, Neighbourly Relationships in Early Modern Drama: Staged Communities, is contracted to Routledge and will be published in 2025.
ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0812-0133
Current projects:
I'm currently writing the Introduction to the forthcoming Oxford World's Classics edition of The Tragedy of Master Arden of Faversham. I'm also working on three projects: Gobbo and The Moor in The Merchant of Venice, Falstaff as a Racialised Figure in The Merry Wives of Windsor, and White Masculinity in The Renegado.
Recent Talks
, Symposium 2024: Minority Identity and Religious Experience, Queen Mary University of London, 14 May, 2024.
'', Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, University of York, 4 October, 2022.
'Too Familiar: Servants' Overfamiliarity in Othello' , London Shakespeare Seminar, King's College London, 11 February, 2019.
'Serving the Violent Household', , Birkbeck University of London, May, 2019.
'Othello and A Woman Killed with Kindness' , Early Modern Literary Studies Conference, Durham University, July, 2019.
Plenary Lecture
'The Early Modern Home and its Neighbours', , 25-26 February, 2022.
'Shakespeare's Servants' at The British Graduate Shakespeare Conference (BritGrad 2019), June, 2019.
Public Engagement
In 2019, I was selected as one of the ‘Youths That Thunder’ at Shakespeare’s Globe. I was invited to present my research at the Globe Theatre as part of an annual event that introduces younger scholars to the general public. The date of my lecture is 12th November, 2019. See my interview with the Globe prior to the talk on:
Qualifications
PhD (University of Warwick)
MA (University of Warwick)
Newest selected publications
Sheeha, I. (2024) ''. Shakespeare, 0 (ahead of print). pp. 1 - 23. ISSN: 1745-0918
Sheeha, I. (2022) 'Teaching The Merry Wives of Windsor in the Wake of the Murder of Sarah Everard'. Teaching Shakespeare Magazine. ISSN: 2049-3568
Sheeha, I. (2022) ''. Shakespeare Survey, 75 (Othello). pp. 89 - 102. ISSN: 0080-9152
Sheeha, I. (2021) ''. Cahiers Elisabethains: late medieval and renaissance English studies, 0 (in press). pp. 1 - 20. ISSN: 0184-7678
Sheeha, I. (2021) ''. Renaissance Quarterly, 74 (3). pp. 1062 - 1064. ISSN: 0034-4338