Drisana Misra
Provost's New Faculty Fellow (Starting July 2024 as Assistant Professor), Asian Studies
Academic focus:
Transregional early modern Japan
Current research project:
Preparing a monograph on the material and intellectual exchanges between the Japanese archipelago, the Iberian Peninsula and the Americas during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Previous positions:
- Research Affiliate, Department of History, University of Sydney, Australia, 2021-2023
Academic background:
- Ph.D., East Asian languages and literatures, Yale University, 2023
- B.A., Comparative literature, Yale University, 2013
Last book read:
“When Species Meet” by Donna Haraway
In your own time/when not working:
Taking my toddler to the park, cooking (and freezing large quantities of) Puerto Rican and Indian dishes for my family, coastal bush walks in Sydney
Courses you’re most looking forward to teaching:
Classical Japanese language; Japan and the early modern globalization
What most excites you about Cornell:
Cornell’s interdisciplinary ethos and building a community with other early career scholars
