Dr Iman Sheeha
Senior Lecturer in Shakespeare and Early Modern Literature

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, Household Servants in Early Modern Domestic Tragedy (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

'Gendered Minority Identity and Religious Experience on the Early Modern Stage: The Case of Muslim Women in Turk Plays', Symposium 2024: Minority Identity and Religious Experience, Queen Mary University of London, 14 May, 2024.

'Moorish Maidservants and Early Modern Erasure of Black Suffering', 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', London Renaissance Seminar, 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', London Shakespeare Centre/Globe Graduate Conference, 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: https://www.shakespearesglobe.com/discover/blogs-media/2019/10/31/youths-that-thunder-dr-iman-sheeha/

Qualifications

PhD (University of Warwick)

MA (University of Warwick)