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Ayesha Ramachandran is Professor of Comparative Literature at Yale University, where she holds affiliate appointments in the Programs in Early Modern Studies, in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, in the History of Science and Medicine, and in the Department of Italian Studies. A scholar of the literatures and cultures of early modern Europe, her research explores the disciplinary, theoretical, and material challenges posed by globalization from the late fifteenth century to the present. Her writing focuses on the making of worlds through interdisciplinary relations between art and science, particularly, poetry, philosophy (natural and political), cartography, visual and print culture. She is the author of (University of Chicago Press, 2015; pbk 2018) which was awarded the MLA’s Scaglione prize in Comparative Literary Studies, the Milton Society of America’s Shawcross Prize, and the Sixteenth Century Studies Association’s Founder’s Prize. Her forthcoming book, Lyric Thinking: Towards a Global Poetics crafts a transhistorical and comparative account of lyric poetry radiating from the early modern period to classical antiquity and to our contemporary moment, taking its cue from poets reading other poets across language, time, and space. It argues that the lyric’s insistence on a distinctive existential stance characterized by a first-person standpoint offers a shared philosophical ground for comparative study thereby opening up a new approach to global poetics.A third collaboratively written book project, Styles of Being: Early Modern Ontologies Now (in progress), brings these preoccupations together in an investigation of the links between anthropology and cross-cultural encounters in the early modern period.