Zainab Cheema's Profile

Cheema, Zainab (Ph.D.)

Assistant Professor, Early World Literature

Department of Language & Literature

World Literature & Early Modern English Literature

Dr. Cheema has taught at the University of Texas at Austin and American University (Washington, DC) before coming to FGCU in 2020. Her current book projects examine global adaptations of Shakespeare's plays and early modern Iberian travelogues.

Education
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- Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, University of Texas at Austin
- M.A. in Comparative Literature, University of California, Irvine
- BA in English and International Studies, Johns Hopkins University
Specialties
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- World Literature
- Early Modern English Literature
Research and Teaching Interests
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- Early World Literature
- Global Travel Literature
- Early Modern Literature
- Shakespeare
- English and Spanish Renaissance Drama
- Translation and Early Modern Globalizations
- Eco-criticism
Courses Offered
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- LIT 2110 Introduction to World Literature and Culture
- LIT 3107 Animal Poetics in World Literature
- LIT 4104 Travel Writing and Global Imagination in Early World Literature
- LIT 4114 Shakespeare in Film
- ENG 6299 Staging Power in Shakespeare's Plays
Publications
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Conference Presentations
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- Panel Chair for Adaptation and the Long Eighteenth Century. The 48th Meeting of the Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Fort Myers, FL. February 2022.
- “Cripped Shakespeare: Ecologies of Early Jacobean Colonial Sovereignty.” The 48th Meeting of the Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Fort Myers, FL. February 2022.
- “Tiempos de Guerra: the Erotics of Border Crossing in Spain’s Moroccan Coloniality.” Reel Iberia Conference, University of Chicago at Urbana-Champaign. September 2021.
- “Racialized Queenship and Religious Identity in Cervantes’ La Española Inglesa.” Constructing Race and Religion in the Early Modern World III. Annual Conference of the Renaissance Society of America. Philadelphia, PA. April 2020.
- “Sovereignty and Monstrosity in The Winter’s Tale: Ecologies of Colonial Disability in Shakespearean Drama.” 48th Annual Meeting of the Shakespeare Association of America. Denver, CO, April 2020.
- “The Politics of Englishing: Transpositions of Cervantes in Fletcherian Tragicomedy.” Annual Conference of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association. Denver, CO. April 2019.
- “More bawdry in one play of Fletcher’s”?: Fletcher and Massinger’s Cervantine Borrowings in The Custom of the Country. 47th Annual Meeting of the Shakespeare Association of America. Washington, DC, April 2019.
- “Translating Empire in the Early Modern Atlantic.” Annual Conference of the American Comparative Literature Association. Washington, DC. March 2019.
- “Horticultural Transculturalism in Early Modern England’s Atlantic Plantations.” 65th Annual Conference of the Renaissance Society of America. Toronto, Canada. March 2019.
Grants & Awards
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- Spr. 2022 PAGES Course Mini Grant, College of Arts and Sciences, Florida Gulf Coast University
- Sept. 2021 Innovative Assessment Design Award, Office of Scholarly Innovations & Student Research, Florida Gulf Coast University
- Apr. 2020 Renaissance Society of America Diversity Grant
- Apr. 2020 Reel Iberia Conference Travel Grant
- Spr. 2019 Harry Rosenberg Travel Award, The Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association
- Fall 2018 Dina Sherzer Excellence Fellowship, Program of Comparative Literature, University of Texas at Austin, 2018
- Spr. 2018 Newberry Library Short Term Fellowship
- 2015–2016 University Graduate Continuing Fellowship, Graduate School, University of Texas at Austin
- Fall 2018 Dina Sherzer Excellence Fellowship, Program of Comparative Literature, University of Texas at Austin, 2018
- 2013–2014 Fulbright Scholarship, Middle East and North Africa
- 2012–2013 FLAS Academic-Year Fellowship, Middle Eastern Studies Department, University of Texas at Austin

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