 Bindu Malieckal, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
English Department
Office: 114 Bradley House
Phone: (603) 641-7039
E-mail: bmalieckal@anselm.edu
Dr. Malieckal specializes in Early Modern drama and culture, with a focus on the representation of Africans, Muslims, Jews, women, and India in Early Modern texts. She has additional interests in Postcolonial literature from India and African American literature. Dr. Malieckal joined the English Department in the year 2000, after completing her Ph.D. at Baylor University. She teaches courses in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literature, from courses on William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, and John Milton, to special topics' classes titled "Politics and Islam in Early Modern Drama" and "Shakespeare and Contemporary Film," among others.
Dr. Malieckal has placed a number of articles, on William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merchant of Venice, and Othello; Christopher Marlowe's Tamburlaine the Great; John Fletcher's The Knight of Malta; Philip Massinger's The Renegado; Rohinton Mistry's Swimming Lessons and Other Stories from Firozsha Baag; Salman Rushdie's The Moor's Last Sigh; and Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God. Dr. Malieckal has edited two collections of essays: Shakespeare and Postcolonial India and, with Dr. Nabil Matar, Muslim and Non-Muslim Women in the Empires of Islam , 1453-1798. Currently, Dr. Malieckal is writing two books, one, on Jews, Christians, and Muslims in Early Modern Drama, and another on race, religion, and politics in Rohinton Mistry's fiction.
Dr. Malieckal is the coordinator of the Center for the Study of Religion and Public Life at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics, Saint Anselm College. In addition, she directs the college's International Faculty Lecture Series, which she founded. Dr. Malieckal is a member of an English Department committee called IMPACT (Interdisciplinary, Multicultural Programs/Activities, Coordinating Team) which organized lectures and events on India and literature and on race and literature.
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