English Department Lecture Series: Ania Loomba October 27, 2011

Ania Loomba teaches early modern literature, histories of race and colonialism, postcolonial studies, feminist theory, and contemporary Indian literature and culture at the University of Pennsylvania, where she is Catherine Bryson Professor of English. Her writings include Gender, Race, Renaissance Drama (Manchester University Press; 1989; Oxford University Press, 1992); Colonialism/Postcolonialism (Routledge, 1998); and Shakespeare, Race, and Colonialism (Oxford University Press, 2002). She has co-edited Post-colonial Shakespeares (Routledge, 1998) and Postcolonial Studies and Beyond (Duke University Press, 2005). She is series editor, with David Johnson of the Open University, UK, of Postcolonial Literary Studies (Edinburgh University Press) and Race in Early Modern England: A Documentary Companion (Palgrave, 2007). Her latest publication is a critical edition of Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra (Norton, 2011). A co-edited collection of essays, Feminisms in South Asia: Contemporary Interventions, is forthcoming from Duke University Press. The title of her talk is “The Global Tempest.”

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