Overview
Drisana Misra is a scholar of the Japanese archipelago and its transregional connections with the Americas and the Iberian Peninsula during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Her research takes an interdisciplinary approach to excavate traditionally obscured routes of transregional exchange, revealing the manifold ways in which Japanese and New World chroniclers, mapmakers, and artists participated in knowledge creation.
For the 2023–2024 academic year, she is a Provost New Faculty Fellow affiliated with the University of Sydney, where she is working on her first monograph, tentatively entitled Japanese New Worlds: Intersecting Imaginaries of the Nanban Period (c. 1543–1641).
Research Focus
- Early Modern Japanese Literature
- Early Modern Japanese Material Culture
- Critical Geography
- Critical Bibliography
- Intellectual History
- Decolonial Theory
- Archipelagic Thinking Human-Animal Studies
- Early Colonial Latin American Art and Literature