The pre-circulated text for discussion in this seminar will be Professor Ng's forthcoming article, "Dutch Wars, Global Trade, and the Heroic Poem:
Dryden's Annus Mirabilis (1666) and Amin's Sya'ir Perang Mengkasar (1670)." The essay is attached.

BIOGRAPHY:
Dr. Ng is Associate Professor of English at the University of Oklahoma.
She specializes in early modern literature with a secondary interest in postcolonial literatures. Her book, _Literature and the Politics of Family in Seventeenth-Century England_ (Cambridge University Press, 2007), examines how the putatively conservative analogy between state and family was used for radical political ends. Her second book project, "Global
Renaissance: Early Modern Classicism and Empire from the British Isles to the Malay Archipelago," explores how Greek and Roman models of empire became part of native histories of the early modern maritime kingdoms of England and in Southeast Asia.