" Colonial politics, colonial poetics? Reading early modern travel writing, then and now "
Natalya Din-Kariuki is an Associate Professor in the Department of English & Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick. Her research examines the literary and intellectual history of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, with a particular focus on travel writing, transnational and transcultural encounters, modes of cosmopolitanism, and rhetoric and poetics. She is currently completing a book on seventeenth-century English travel writing, material from which has been published in Textual Practice, the Review of English Studies, and elsewhere. With Subha Mukherji and Rowan Williams, she edited Crossings: Migrant Knowledges, Migrant Forms (2025). Finally, with Guido van Meersbergen, she is editing a volume of decolonial approaches to the history of travel.