ResearchBioMediasPublicationsArticles
Research themes
- Early Modern Drama (Shakespeare and his contemporaries)
- Early Modern travel writing
- Receptions of Muslim East (Ottoman Empire and Safavid Persia) in Early Modern England
Current Project
- Coedition, with Chloë Houston and Sophie Lemercier-Goddard, de A World of World : Writing Distant Travels and Linguistic Otherness in Early Modern England (c. 1550-1660). Collection of essays contracted to Brepols.
Research Supervision
- British Literature and history of ideas, 16th-17th centuries
- Early Modern theatre (Shakespeare and his contemporaries) and its modern adaptations
- Travel literature, particularly in connection with Persia and the Ottoman empire in the early modern period
- Literary orientalism
Education and Academic Positions
- 1990, Ecole Normale Supérieure
- 1993, Agrégation d’anglais
- 2000, PhD, University of Montpellier 3. Dissertation title: Aux frontières de l’humain: Figures du cannibalisme dans le théâtre anglais de la Renaissance
- 2010, Habilitation à diriger des recherches, University of Montpellier 3. Title: Etrangeté et étrangèreté dans le théâtre anglais de la Renaissance
- 1995-2000: Allocataire Monitrice Normalienne and ATER at the University of Montpellier
- 2000-2012, Maître de conferences (Senior Lecturer), Université Paris Diderot – Paris 7
- 2012-present, Professor, Université Paris Diderot – Paris 7, currently Université Paris Cité
- 2020-2021: Visiting fellowship at Exeter College, Oxford: https://www.tideproject.uk/2020/10/05/tide-is-delighted-to-welcome-professor-ladan-niayesh-universite-de-paris-as-a-honorary-research-associate-and-exeter-college-visiting-fellow-at-oxford/
- 2021-2022: Visiting Fellowship with Oxford Nizami Ganjavi Centre: https://www.ongc.ox.ac.uk/people/ladan-niayesh
Administrative Responsibilities
- Member of the Hakluyt Society Council (2017-2022)
- Co-founder and board member of the Paris Early Modern Seminar (2016 to now): https://pems.hypotheses.org
- Co-editor of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Studies of Manchester University Press (2020 to now): https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/series/seventeenth-eighteenth-century-studies
- Co-founder et co-editor, with Laetitia Sansonetti, of the Polyglot Encounters in Early Modern Britain series with Brepols (2021 to now): https://www.brepols.net/series/peemb
Interview de Ladan Niayesh, conseillère littéraire pour le tournage de Misanthropos, adaptation filmique de la pièce “Timon d’Athènes” de Shakespeare
LARCA is coming : Ladan Niayesh, Shakespeare et Game of Thrones1ère vidéo de « Game of science : Game of Thrones vu par la science » – Université de Paris.
Abécédaire du Larca – S comme Shakespeare – Ladan Niayesh
Shakespeare et ses étranges étrangersFrance Culture – Tout un monde – 9 avril 2016
Captain Cook after 250 years: Re-exploring The Voyages of James Cook (Avril 2020) Date de publication : 29/04/2020
Eastern Resonances in Early Modern England Receptions and Transformations from the Renaissance to the Romantic Period Date de publication : 25/09/2019
Selected Publications:
- “Mitring Persia in The Faerie Queene”, The Spenser Review 52.3-4 (Autumn 2022), https://www.english.cam.ac.uk/spenseronline/review/item/52.3.4/
- Echoing Cities in Muscovy Company Merchants’ Itineraries in Persia and Central Asia, 1558-1570, Hakluyt Society Annual Lecture 2022.
- “English Literature and the Ottoman and Persian Empires in the Renaissance”, The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature, June 2022. https://oxfordre.com/literature/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780190201098.001.0001/acrefore-9780190201098-e-1325?rskey=vrjnZE&result=1
- “Patterning the Tatar Girl in George Puttenham’s The Art of English Poesie (1589)”, 377-386 in Jyotsna Singh (ed.), A Companion to the Global Renaissance: Literature and Culture in the Era of Expansion, 1500-1700, Second Edition. Chichester: Wiley Blackwell, 2021.
- “Reterritorializing Persepolis: The First English Travellers’ Accounts”, 115-131 in Jane Grogan (ed.), Beyond Greece and Rome: Reading the Ancient Near East in Early Modern Europe. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020.
- Astrolabe 49 (2020) : special issue on “Captain Cook after 250 Years: Re-exploring the Voyages of James Cook”, https://astrolabe.msh.uca.fr/captain-cook-after-250-years-re-exploring-voyages-james-cook-avril-2020, coedited with Pierre Lurbe and Emmanuelle Péraldo.
- Eastern Resonances in Early Modern England: Receptions and Transformations from the Renaissance to the Romantic Period, ed. Claire Gallien and Ladan Niayesh. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
- Sillages critiques 26 (2019) : special issue on “Nouvelles perspectives sur The Duchess of Malfi”, https://journals.openedition.org/sillagescritiques/6635, coedited with Line Cottegnies, Anne-Valérie Dulac and Anne-Marie Miller-Blaise.
- Three Romances of Eastern Conquest: Alphonsus, King of Aragon by Robert Greene, Soliman and Perseda by Thomas Kyd, The Four Prentices of London by Thomas Heywood. ‘Revels Plays Companion Library Series’. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2018.
- “From Travel Guide to Self-Discovery in Andrew Boorde’s Fyrst Boke of the Introduction of Knowledge (1547)”, Etudes Anglaises 70:2 (April-June 2017), 138-146.
- XVII-XVIII 74 (2017), special issue on “Empire”, coedited with Marie-Jeanne Rossignol. http://journals.openedition.org/1718/811.
