Professor

British and Irish Literary Studies

Comparative Literature

Contact Information

Email: nocent@unm.edu
Office Location: Ortega 327B

Biography

Carmen Nocentelli specializes in early modern studies, with a focus on the cultural dynamics of proto-globalization. Her research crosses disciplinary, geographical, and linguistic boundaries, exploring how European literatures and cultures were transformed by contact with Asia, Africa, and the Americas.

She is co-editor of England's Asian Renaissance (2021) and author of Empires of Love: Europe, Asia, and the Making of Early Modern Identity (2013), winner of the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies and the Roland H. Bainton Book Prize in Literature.

Her scholarship on travel writing, early modern drama, picaresque fiction, and political pamphleteering has appeared in leading journals—including PMLA, Modern Language Quarterly, and The Journal of Early Modern Cultural Studies—as well as collections such as Travel and Travail: Early Modern Women, English Drama, and the Wider World, Indography: Writing the 'Indian' in Early Modern England, and Rereading the Black Legend: The Discourses of Religious and Racial Difference in the Renaissance Empires.

Her research has been supported by fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Fulbright Commission, the Folger Shakespeare Library, the Huntington Library, and the Newberry Library.