Iyengar, Sujata 1970–

PERSONAL:

Born 1970, in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England; daughter of E.N. (a physician) and Mythili (a physician) Iyengar; married Richard Menke (a college professor); children: Kavya, Kartik. Ethnicity: "British Indian." Education: Girton College, Cambridge, B.A. (hons.), 1991; University of Birmingham, M.A., 1992; Stanford University, Ph.D., 1998. Hobbies and other interests: Early music, vegetarian cooking.

ADDRESSES:

Office—Department of English, University of Georgia, Park Hall, Athens, GA 30602-6205. E-mail—iyengar@uga.edu.

CAREER:

University of Georgia, Athens, assistant professor, 1998-2005, associate professor of English, 2005—.

MEMBER:

Modern Language Association of America, Renaissance Association of America.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Special Sandy Beaver Award, University of Georgia, 2000; Schachterle Prize, Society for Literature and Science, 2003, for article "Royalist, Romancist, Racialist: Rank, Gender, and Race in the Science and Fiction of Margaret Cavendish."

WRITINGS:

Shades of Difference: Mythologies of Skin Color in the English Renaissance, University of Pennsylvania Press (Philadelphia, PA), 2004.

Contributor to books, including Gender and Monstrous Appetite in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, edited by Elizabeth Herbert McAvoy and Teresa Walters, University of Wales Press (Aberystwyth, Wales), 2002; Othello: New Critical Essays, edited by Philip C. Kolin, Routledge (New York, NY), 2002; Sensible Flesh: Renaissance Representations of the Tactile, edited by Elizabeth Harvey, University of Pennsylvania Press (Philadelphia, PA), 2003; and Color-Blind Shakespeare, edited by Ayanna Thompson, Routledge, 2006. Contributor to periodicals, including Postmodern Culture and Literature/Film Quarterly. Borrowers and Lenders: Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation, cofounder and coeditor, and editor of special issues, 2005, 2006.