Nandini Das is Professor of Early Modern English Literature and Culture at the University of Oxford. She works on the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, with special emphasis on travel, migration, and cross-cultural encounters. She has written Robert Greene’s Planetomachia (2007), Renaissance Romance: The Transformation of English Prose Fiction, 1570-1620 (2011), and published widely on Renaissance travel, including The Cambridge History of Travel Writing (2019), co-edited with Tim Youngs, Keywords of Identity, Race, and Human Mobility in Early Modern England (2021) and Lives in Transit (2022). She is project director for ‘Travel, Transculturality and Identity in Early Modern England’ (www.tideproject.uk) and ‘Teaching Race, Belonging, Empire and Migration‘ (TRACTION), both funded by the European Research Council. Described as a ‘triumph of writing and scholarship’, her highly acclaimed account of the first English embassy to India, Courting India: England, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire was published by Bloomsbury in 2023. She regularly presents television and radio programmes on her areas of research.