Amrita Sen is Associate Professor and Deputy Director, UGC-HRDC, University of Calcutta, and affiliated member of the Department of English. She is co-editor of Civic Performance: Pageantry and Entertainments in Early Modern London (Routledge 2020), and has also co-edited a special issue of the Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies on “Alternative Histories of the East India Company” (2017). Her research focuses on the early activities of the East India Company, early modern drama, and Shakespeare adaptations. She has also published essays and book chapters on East India Company women, Bollywood Shakespeares, and early modern ethnography. Her current project looks at representations of the East Indies on the English stage.