Deyasini (pronounced They-a-see-knee) is a graduate student at Syracuse University. She is currently working on a dissertation on race, affect, and disability. Looking at presentations of non-normative bodyminds in Shakespeare, Spenser, and others, Dasgupta locates an ecology of emotions between audience/reader and performer/character. In doing so, she suggests that the racializing and disabling capacities of premodern texts depend on the audience’s complicity. Her work therefore recognizes “deviation” as an ongoing, carefully constructed process rather than an essentialist condition and prompts us to think of what it means to inhabit the “habitual” body.
Global Early Modern Formations of Race and Their Afterlives [Workshop hosted by the CNY Humanities Corridor and organized by Dr. Kathleen Long at Cornell University, NY], 2021
Global Early Modern Formations of Race and Their Afterlives [Workshop hosted by the CNY Humanities Corridor and organized by Dr. Kathleen Long at Cornell University, NY], 2021
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