Ania Loomba

Ania Loomba is an Indian literary scholar. She is the author of post-colonialism-critical studies and works as a literature professor at the University of Pennsylvania .

Loomba researches and teaches early modern English literature and culture, post-colonialism, history of colonialism and post-colonialism in South Asia, and post-colonial literature and culture. Her academic interests focus on the history and literature of racism , colonialism and nation building from the 16th century to the present day. Much of her work - such as Colonialism / Postcolonialism (1998) and Shakespeare, Race and Colonialism (2002) - deal with Shakespeare and the theater of the Renaissance . Her research on the history of racism since the early modern period also includes work on England's early contacts with India, the Moluccas and Turkey .

Works

• Postcolonial Studies and Beyond . Permanent Black Publishing House. New Delhi 2006 - Edited with Suvir Kaul , Matti Bunzl , Antoinette Burton and Jed Esty .
• Colonialism / Postcolonialism . 1998
• Postcolonial Shakespeare . 1998
• Shakespeare, Race, and Colonialism . Oxford 2002

Contributions

• Loomba, Ania: Remembering Said. Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East. No. 23, Numbers 1 & 2, 2003, ( MUSE )

Web links

• Md. Mahmudul Hasan: Anti-colonial feminism. Discourses of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and Ania Loomba . In: Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bangladesh (Humanities), Vol. 49 (2004), No. 1, pp. 89-104. ISSN  1015-6836 .
• Ania Loomba: The Postcolonial Tempest: Response to Peter Hulme's 'Stormy Weather'
• Vita Ania Loomba - South Asia Studies