Alya Sahera Hussain is a second-year English Literature student at the University of Manchester. Her research interests lie in the intersections between gender and race in Early Modern literature and drama. She is also interested in discovering and debating parallels between 16th century literature and contemporary literature, in particular gender tropes that have been translated through time. Alya is currently focusing on Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko (1688), specifically the relationship between Imoinda and the people of the New World’s fascination with her. Through analysing the rhetoric of her beauty and allure, Alya is looking to expand on the discourse of Early Modern views on the commodification of women outside the New World.