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 garnered the Jeanne and Aldo Scaglione Prize in Comparative Literary Studies and the Roland H. Bainton Prize for Best Book in Literature - and coeditor of England's Asian Renaissance. Recent and forthcoming work includes essays on 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

• “Rereading ‘Elizabeth I as Europa’,” PMLA 138.2 (2023)
• "Of Corn and Tares: Making Madras English, 1639-1696," Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies 22.2 (2022)
• "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)
•  “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)
• “The Dutch Black Legend,” Modern Language Quarterly 75.3 (2014)
• "Made in India: How Meriton Latroon Became an Englishman," Indography: Writing the Indian in Early Modern England, ed. Jonathan G. Harris (Palgrave, 2012) 
• "Spice Race: The Island Princess and the Politics of Translational Appropriation," PMLA 125.3 (2010) 
• "The Erotics of Mercantile Imperialism: Cross-Cultural Requitedness in the Early Modern Period," Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies 8.1 (2008).
• "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:

• 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