Jonathan Gil Harris

Biography

Jonathan Gil Harris is Professor of English as well as Dean of Academic Affairs at Ashoka University. He was formerly Professor at George Washington University, where he had taught since 2003. Prior to that, he held positions at Ithaca College, New York, and the University of Auckland in New Zealand. The past recipient of fellowships from the Folger Shakespeare Library, the Society for the Humanities at Cornell University, and the National Endowment for the Humanities, he also served as Associate Editor of Shakespeare Quarterly from 2005 to 2013. Prof. Harris is the author of six books: Foreign Bodies and the Body Politic: Discourses of Social Pathology in Early Modern England(Cambridge University Press, 1998); Sick Economies: Drama, Mercantilism, and Disease in Shakespeare's England (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004); Untimely Matter in the Time of Shakespeare (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008, named by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2009); Shakespeare and Literary Theory (Oxford University Press, 2010); Marvellous Repossessions: The Tempest, Globalization, and the Waking Dream of Paradise (Ronsdale Press, 2012); and, most recently, the best-selling The First Firangis: Remarkable Stories of Heroes, Healers, Charlatans, Courtesans & Other Foreigners Who Became Indian(Aleph Books, 2015). He co-edited, with Natasha Korda, Staged Properties in Early Modern English Drama (Cambridge University Press, 2002). He is also the editor of the third New Mermaids edition of Thomas Dekker's The Shoemaker's Holiday (Methuen, 2008); Placing Michael Neill: Issues of Place in Shakespeare and Early Modern Culture (Ashgate Press, 2011); and Indography: Writing the 'Indian' in Early Modern England (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012).

Research Interest

economics