A scholar of global lyric poetry and the literatures and cultures of early modern Europe, Ayesha Ramachandran explores the making of worlds through interdisciplinary relations between art and science, particularly, poetry, philosophy (natural and political), cartography, visual and print culture. Her current book in progress, Lyric Thinking: Towards a Global Poetics, crafts a transhistorical and comparative account of lyric poetry. It argues that the lyric’s insistence on a distinctive existential stance characterized by a first-person standpoint offers a shared philosophical ground for comparative, global poetics. Her first book, The Worldmakers: Global Imagining in Early Modern Europe (2015), won the MLA’s Scaglione prize in Comparative Literary Studies, the Milton Society of America’s Shawcross Prize for the best book chapter on Milton, and the Sixteenth Century Studies Association’s Founder’s Prize for the best first book manuscript.