Nandini DasNandini Das is Professor of English Literature at the University of Liverpool. She works on Renaissance literature and cultural history, with special emphasis on travel and cross-cultural encounters between Europe and Asia. Her publications include Rbert Greene's Planetomachia (2007) and Renaissance Romance: The Transformation of English Prose Fiction, 1570–1620 (2011). She is volume editor of Elizabethan Levant Trade and South Asia in the forthcoming edition of Hakluyt's Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffikes, and Discoveries of the English Nation, 1598–1600 and director of the project 'Travel, Transculturality and Identity in Early Modern England' (TIDE), funded by the European Research Council. Read More Read Less