Urvashi Chakravarty

is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Toronto and works on early modern English literature, critical race studies, queer studies, and the history of slavery. She was a Mellon Long-Term Fellow at the Folger Shakespeare Library for 2017-2018, and her first book, Fictions of Consent: Slavery, Servitude, and Free Service in Early Modern England (Penn Press, 2022), explores the ideologies of Atlantic slavery in early modern England.