Dr Iman Sheeha
Dr Iman Sheeha
Member, MEMOs

Iman Sheeha is a Senior Lecturer in Shakespeare and Early Modern Literature at Brunel University, London. She is the author of Household Servants in Early Modern Domestic Tragedy (Routledge, 2020) and co-editor of a special issue on liminal domestic spaces for Early Modern Literary Studies (2020). Her research has appeared or is forthcoming in Shakespeare Survey, Early Theatre, Cahiers Élisabéthains, Early Modern Literary Studies, and American Notes and Queries. She has contributed to People and Piety: Devotional Writing in Print and Manuscript in Early Modern England (Manchester University Press, 2019), is contributing a chapter on domestic service in the interracial household to Oxford Handbook on Travel, Identity, and Race in Early Modern England, 1550–1700 (OUP, 2023), and is writing the Introduction to the forthcoming Oxford World Classics The Tragedy of Master Arden of Faversham (OUP, 2024). She is currently working on a project entitled Shakespeare’s Neighbours: Communities of Support and Surveillance. She can be followed on Twitter @DrSheeha.


Unruly Muslim Women and the Construction of European Masculinity in Philip Massinger’s The Renegado
Unruly Muslim Women and the Construction of European Masculinity in Philip Massinger’s The Renegado
In 'The Renegado', the control of Muslim women is a site for constructing European racial, masculine superiority in contrast to perceived Muslim inferiority.
23 February 2026
‘Still questioned me the story of my life’:  White Interrogators and Black Personal Histories
‘Still questioned me the story of my life’: White Interrogators and Black Personal Histories
People from marginalised backgrounds continue to have similar encounters insisting on access to their personal histories to this day.
6 May 2024
Aaron’s ‘fleece of woolly hair’ and Early Modern Depictions of Black Masculinity
Aaron’s ‘fleece of woolly hair’ and Early Modern Depictions of Black Masculinity
This association between African masculinity and dangerous femininity is no coincidence
27 February 2023
Moorish Maidservants and Early Modern Erasure of Black Suffering
Moorish Maidservants and Early Modern Erasure of Black Suffering
Moorish maidservants on the early modern stage are almost invariably depicted as evil, lustful, and promiscuous.
5 September 2022