Dr. Ania Loomba

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Biography

Ania Loomba is the Catherine Bryson Professor Emerita in the Department of English at the University of Pennsylvania. She earned her Bachelor's (Hons.) and M. M. Phil. degrees from the University of Delhi, India, and her Ph.D. from the University of Sussex, UK. Her research interests include early modern literature, histories of race and colonialism, postcolonial studies, feminist theory, and contemporary Indian literature and culture. She has authored and edited several influential works such as 'Gender, Race, Renaissance Drama' and 'Colonialism/Postcolonialism,' among others. Her academic contributions focus on feminism within early modern studies, race embodiment, and the complexities of caste within Indian political contexts. Loomba has held the prestigious Catherine Bryson Chair and has actively engaged in cross-listed courses in Comparative Literature, South Asian Studies, and Women's Studies.

Research Interests

Early Modern Literature Histories of Race Colonialism Postcolonial Studies Feminist Theory Contemporary Indian Literature and Culture

Courses

ENGL 0039.401 Narrative Cultures ENGL 5415.401 Orientalisms ENGL 7901.401 Feminism Early Modern Studies ENGL 5980.401 Histories Race & Sexuality ENGL 2405.401 Global Feminisms ENGL 103.401 Narrative Cultures ENGL 794.401 Subaltern Speak? Identity, Politics Life-Writing ENGL 031.401 Drama World Shakespeare's London ENGL 736.401 Race Early Modern England ENGL 730.401 Race, Globalization, Capitalism Early Modern England ENGL 031.401 Global Renaissance ENGL 226.401 Disorderly Women Renaissance Drama ENGL 705.401 Race, Time Space ENGL 293.401 Narrative Cultures ENGL 294.401 Global Feminisms ENGL 769.401 Postcolonial Feminisms ENGL 769.401 Feminisms Postcolonialities ENGL 296.401 Global Feminism ENGL 794.401 Radical India: Histories, Literatures, Debates ENGL 769.401 Race Sexuality Time Space ENGL 102.402 Literature Film Age Globalization ENGL 103.402 Narrative Cultures ENGL 231.301 Transgressive Women Renaissance Drama ENGL 101.401 Shakespeare Afterlives: Film, Theater, Culture ENGL 730.401 Global Early Modern: Periodization, Race Global Contact 1550-1650 ENGL 031.401 Introduction Renaissance Literature Culture ENGL 101.401 Shakespeare Film ENGL 769.401 Dissent: histories, theories futures ENGL 800.301 Pedagogy ENGL 395.401 Theater World ENGL 093.401 Postcolonial Literature ENGL 231.301 Renaissance Drama ENGL 736.401 Race, Globilization, Empire Early Modern England ENGL 293.401 Growing Funny—adolescence identity South Asian Writing ENGL 101.001 Shakespeare ENGL 016.402 Literature Empire ENGL 730.301 English Literary Imagination Global Early Modern: Periodization, Race, Global Contact ENGL 102.401 Literature Film Age Globalization (plus recitations) ENGL 231.301 Shakespeare Empire ENGL 774.401 Provincializing Europe: Transnationalism, Empire Comparative Critique ENGL 031.001 Renaissance Literature & Culture ENGL 077.401 Literature Empire: Imperial Contestations English Literature ENGL 393.401 Growing Funny-Nation Identity South Asian Writing ENGL 595.401 Question Empire ENGL 093.402 Growing Funny-nation & identity South Asian Writing ENGL 293.401 Engendering Nation ENGL 020.303 Major British Writers 1350-1660 ENGL 736.401 Renaissance Studies: Re-orienting Renaissance

Requirements for University of Pennsylvania

Doctorate Program
Requirements
GPA Requirement
Required:3.6
GRE General
Verbal
Required:162
Quantitative
Required:162
Overall
Required:162
GMAT
Total Score
Required:728
Overall
Required:728
TOEFL
Total
Required:115
Prerequisites
Bachelor's degree or equivalent Strong quantitative background
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