Ania Loomba

Ania Loomba is the Catherine Bryson Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. She is affiliated with the Department of English, Comparative Literature, South Asian Studies, and Women's Studies. Her scholarship bridges early modern literature with contemporary critical theory, focusing on intersections of gender, race, and colonialism.

• Early modern literature and culture
• Postcolonial and feminist theory
• Contemporary Indian cultural studies
• Transnational feminist frameworks
• Colonial and racial histories

Her publications include groundbreaking works on Shakespearean studies, feminist theory, and postcolonial discourse. She co-edited the award-winning Rethinking Feminism in Early Modern Studies (2016), which interrogates feminist methodologies through lenses of race, affect, and transnationalism.

• Society for the Study of Early Modern Women’s Collaborative Book Prize 2017
• Editorial roles in Postcolonial Literary Studies series