Sujata Iyengar 

Associate Professor, Undergraduate Co-ordinator, co-founder and co-editor of Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation

Email:  iyengar@uga.edu   Tel:  706-542-2258   Office:  135 Park Hall  

Office hours: 

Send email to lgn1013@uga.edu to make an appointment with Ms. Norris for advisement or to iyengar@uga.edu to Dr. Iyengar for academic questions.

I can be available to students on Mondays from 1-3, Wednesdays from 2-3.30, and most Fridays from 2-3. Sign up for an appointment using the SARA calendar; if you are already my advisee or mentee, you will be able to add an appointment with me already; if you can't access my calendar, send me email and I will add you as a secondary advisee. If you have conflicts at all of those times, bear in mind that I am in class M 9-12, T 10-11 and 12.30-1.30, in meetings M 3.45-5.30, W 12-1.15 and some Mondays 12.15-1.15, and I work at home on Thursdays.

If I am your advisor and mentor, bring to your appointment two copies of your DARS, one marked up with questions, omissions, and incomplete areas. Also bring a schedule, with the courses you are considering pencilled in, and a list of English department courses you have taken (and instructors).

If you are a student in one of my classes, please come with a list of specific questions for me. If you want to talk to me about your paper, make an appointment first so that we can have enough time. If you let me know in advance, I'll add you to my SARA calendar so that you can schedule our meeting at a mutually convenient time.

If you are a student in another dept., please check with Ms. Norris before coming to see me so that we can make sure you are going to the right place for your query.

Sujata Iyengar (Ph.D., Stanford University, 1998), Associate Professor, specializes in English Renaissance Literature. Her first book, Shades of Difference: Mythologies of Skin Color in Early Modern England  was published by the University of Pennsylvania Press in 2005. Articles by her include "Royalist, Romancist, Racialist: Rank, Gender and Race in the Science and Fiction of Margaret Cavendish"(ELH, 2002), which won the Schachterle Prize from the Society for Literature and Science, the invited essay "The Tolerance and Persecution of Africans in Early Modern England and Scotland," for an exhibition catalogue for the Folger Shakespeare Library, Voices for Tolerance in an Age of Persecution, ed. Vincent Carey, "Color-Blind Casting in Single-Sex Shakespeare," in Color-Blind Shakespeare, edited by Ayanna Thompson (Routledge, 2006), and "Race and Skin-Color in Early Modern Women's Writing," forthcoming in A History of British Women's Writing, ed. Jennifer Summit and Caroline Bicks (Palgrave). She spent the summer of 2007 on a fellowship to the Folger Shakespeare Library to conduct archival research on A Dictionary of Shakespeare's Medical Language (under contract with Continuum Press under the Athlone Press imprint). She is a founding editor (with Christy Desmet) of Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation, which won First Prize in the "Best New Journal" category from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals (2007).