Lubaaba Al-Azami (King’s College London) presents on 'English Travellers and Indian Queens at the Mughal Court' as part of the Society for Court Studies’ latest seminar series.

Dr Lubaaba Al-Azami is founding editor of Medieval and Early Modern Orients (MEMOs). She is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Liverpool, prior to which she was a postdoctoral researcher at King's College London. She completed her PhD in English Literature at the University of Liverpool where her AHRC funded research considered early modern English encounters with Mughal Indian imperial women. During 2020/21 she was a visiting researcher at the University of Oxford. She completed her BA in English at King’s College London, an MA in Islamic Studies at SOAS, University of London and an MA in English from The George Washington University, Washington DC. She is founder of Network of Sisters in Academia (@NeSATweets), the first international professional network for Muslim women academics. Her research interests include early Anglo-European encounters with the Islamic Worlds, early modern theatrical negotiations of transnational politics, trade and religion, intersectionality, decolonialism and well-brewed tea. Her book, First Encounters: How England and Mughal India Shaped the World, is forthcoming from John Murray Press. Lubaaba is represented by Northbank Talent Management and tweets @Lubaabanama.