Carmen Nocentelli holds a joint appointment in the Department of English and the Program in Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies. Her research and teaching interests include cross-cultural contacts and early modern colonialisms, race and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, early modern witchcraft, drama, travel literature, and epic poetry. She is the author of Empires of Love: Europe, Asia, and the Making of Early Modern Identity - which earned both the Jeanne and Aldo Scaglione Prize in Comparative Literary Studies and the Roland H. Bainton Prize for Best Book in Literature. She has co-edited the volume England's Asian Renaissance and is currently coediting The Cambridge Companion to Global Literary Culture in Early Modern England. Her recent and forthcoming work explores allegorical cartography, political mythopoesis, cross-cultural mobility, and intimate relationships in the age of contact.

Selected Publications:

Books

• Empires of Love: Europe, Asia, and the Making of Early Modern Identity (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013)
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• England's Asian Renaissance, coedited with Su Fang Ng (University of Delaware Press, 2021)
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Articles and Book Chapters

• “Mucking About with Islands: A Response,” Viator 55.1 (2024): 159-63.
• “Rereading ‘Elizabeth I as Europa’,” PMLA 138.2 (2023): 321-342
• "Of Corn and Tares: Making Madras English, 1639-1696," Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies 22.2 (2022): 72-93
• "England's Asian Renaissance: An Introduction" (with Su Fang Ng), England's Asian Renaissance, ed. Su Fang Ng and Carmen Nocentelli (University of Delaware Press, 2021). 1-27
•  “Teresa Sampsonia Sherley: Amazon, Traveler, and Consort,” Travel and Travail: Early Modern Women, English Drama, and the Wider World, ed. Bernadette Andrea and Patricia Akhimie (University of Nebraska Press, 2019). 81-101
• “The Dutch Black Legend,” Modern Language Quarterly 75.3 (2014): 355-83
• "Made in India: How Meriton Latroon Became an Englishman," Indography: Writing the Indian in Early Modern England, ed. Jonathan G. Harris (Palgrave, 2012). 223-34 
• "Spice Race: The Island Princess and the Politics of Translational Appropriation," PMLA 125.3 (2010): 572-88
• "The Erotics of Mercantile Imperialism: Cross-Cultural Requitedness in the Early Modern Period," Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies 8.1 (2008). 134-53
• "Discipline and Love: Linschoten and the Estado da Índia," Rereading the Black Legend: The Discourses of Religious and Racial Difference in the Renaissance Empires, ed. Margaret R. Greer, Walter D. Mignolo, and Maureen Quilligan (University of Chicago Press, 2007).
  

Other writing

• Spostare il centro del mondo: la lotta per le libertà culturali [Moving the Centre: The Struggle for Cultural Freedoms]. Translation into Italian from an original by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o. (Meltemi 2000).

Awards and Grants:

• National Endowment for the Humanities Faculty Award (2025-2026)
• WeR1 Faculty Scholarship Time, UNM (2023)
• FRESSH (Fostering Research Expansion in the Social Sciences and Humanities) Pilot Program Fellowship, UNM (2022)
• Adobe Digital Literacy Innovation Award, Center for Teaching and Learning, UNM (2021)
• Faculty Research Grant, UNM Feminist Research Institute (2020)
• National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, Folger Shakespeare Library (2016-2017)
• National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, Newberry Library (2008-2009)
• Julia M. Keleher and Telfair Hendon Junior Faculty Award, Department of English, UNM (2008)
• Mayers Fellowship, Huntington Library (2007)
• Audrey Lumsden-Kouvel Fellowship, Newberry Library (2006)
• Large Research Grant, UNM Research Allocation Committee (2006)
• Susan Geiger Faculty Award, UNM Feminist Research Institute (2005)
• Small Research Grant, UNM Research Allocation Committee (2005)

Teaching Interests:

• Early Modern Drama
• Early Modern Epic Poetry
• Demonology and Witchcraft
• Early Globalization
• Literary Theory
• Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies

Representative Courses:

• ENGL582 - Shakespeare and Race
• COMP480/ENGL452 - The Global Renaissance
• COMP432/ENGL432/FREN432 - Magic, Witchcraft, and Science
• ENGL352 - Early Shakespeare
• ENGL353 - Later Shakespeare
• COMP380/ENGL315 - Literature and the Age of Exploration
• COMP2225 - Health, Illness, and Culture