Su Fang Ng

Su Fang Ng is a professor of English and Clifford A. Cutchins III Professor at Virginia Tech. She is the author of two monographs--Literature and the Politics of Family in Seventeenth-Century England (Cambridge UP 2007); Alexander the Great from Britain to Southeast Asia: Peripheral Empires in the Global Renaissance (Oxford UP 2019)—and a Cambridge Element, Writing About Discovery in the Early Modern East Indies (Cambridge UP, 2022). Her book on Alexander the Great won the Renaissance Society of America’s 2020 Phyllis Goodhart. Gordan Prize for best book in Renaissance Studies. She edited a special journal issue on Transnational Networks for Genre, and co-edited England’s Asian Renaissance (U of Delaware P, 2022). She has held fellowships from the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard, the National Humanities Center, the University of Texas at Austin, Heidelberg University, All Souls College at Oxford, the University of Wisconsin at Madison, the Folger Shakespeare Library as well as the National Endowment for the Humanities and others. Her research areas include early modern literature (especially Shakespeare and Milton), colonial and postcolonial literatures, and comparative literature.