Dr Lubaaba Al-Azami is founding editor of Medieval and Early Modern Orients (MEMOs). She is Lecturer in English at Queen Mary, University of London and research fellow at the University of Liverpool. Her first book, Travellers in the Golden Realm: How Mughal India Connected England to the World (John Murray, 2024) was shortlisted for the British in India Book Prize 2025. Her research centres the Global Renaissance and Shakespeare, including Anglo-European encounters with the Islamic Worlds, dramatic representations of the 'East', travel and transculturality, premodern critical race studies, intersectionality, decolonialism and well-brewed tea. She is currently working on a new edition of Titus Andronicus with Cambridge University Press, and her second monograph on the representation of Indian queens on Renaissance English stages.

Previously, Lubaaba was Lecturer in Shakespeare and Early Modern Literature at the University of Manchester. She has also served as postdoctoral researcher at King's College London and visiting researcher at the University of Oxford. She completed her AHRC-funded PhD in English Literature at the University of Liverpool. She is founder of Network of Sisters in Academia (@NeSATweets), the first international professional network for Muslim women academics. Lubaaba is represented by Northbank Talent Management. She can be found on Instagram @DrLubaaba.