Arkaprabha Chakraborty

I am currently studying the movement and migration of people, objects and ideas within the island of Britain between the 13th and the 15th centuries to evaluate the formal origins of Middle English verse. I use the conclusions from this project to examine two inextricable questions critical to the ideological origins of later British colonialism: When did the English become the British?, and hence, when did the British Empire begin?

List of Publications

• Translating the Trans-: Critical Homophony, ‘a glistering thyng’ and the Dis-oriented Identity of ‘Emare/ who changed her name to Egare/ in the Lond of Galys’.” In Conjuring Identity: Rethinking Magic in the Global Middle Ages. Edited by Kersti Francis, Misho Ishikawa, and Anne Le. Forthcoming.