Ania Loomba received her BA (Hons.), M. A., and M. Phil. degrees from the University of Delhi, India, and her Ph. D. from the University of Sussex, UK. She researches and teaches early modern studies, postcolonial studies, histories of race and colonialism, feminist theory, and contemporary Indian literature and society, often exploring the intersections between these fields.

She has previously taught at the University of Delhi, and Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, the University of Tulsa, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She was Mellon Fellow at Stanford University and has taught at the University of Natal, Durban, South Africa, as well as the School of Criticism and Theory at Karlskrona, Sweden. She currently holds the Catherine Bryson Chair in the English department. She is also faculty in Comparative Literature, South Asian Studies, Women’s Studies, and Asian-American Studies, and her courses are regularly cross-listed with these programs.

Her publications include Gender, Race, Renaissance Drama (Manchester University Press; 1989; Oxford University Press, 1992); Colonialism/ Postcolonialism (Routledge, 1998; second edition, 2005; with Italian, Turkish, Japanese, Swedish and Indonesian editions) 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), and written extensively on race and colonialism, early modern drama and culture, Shakespeare, adaptations of Shakespeare, the women’s movement and feminist theory and politics.Most recently, she has compiled (with Jonathan Burton) Race in Early Modern England: A Documentary Companion (Palgrave, 2007) which documents the range and complexity of premodern thinking about racial difference and shows their significance for theories of race.

She is series editor (with David Johnson of the Open University, UK) of Postcolonial Literary Studies (Edinburgh University Press). She is currently working on a critical edition of Antony and Cleopatra, and co-editing a collection of essays on South Asian feminism. She is also working on a monograph on early modern English contact with Asia.