September 13, 2010
York College’s Humanities Lectures Series, “Borders and Boundaries,” will open with a discussion of colonialism and postcolonialism on Sept. 23. Ania Loomba, Catherine Bryson Chair in the University of Pennsylvania’s English department, will present “The Border and Boundary Between Colonialism and Postcolonialism” at 7 p.m. in the Humanities Center Room 218. The event is open to the public free of charge.
Loomba is also a member of the University’s 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; Colonialism/ Postcolonialism; and Shakespeare, Race, and Colonialism. She has co-edited Post-colonial Shakespeares and Postcolonial Studies and Beyond and has 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, which documents the range and complexity of premodern thinking about racial difference and shows their significance for theories of race.
Loomba is series editor (with David Johnson of the Open University, United Kingdom) of Postcolonial Literary Studies. 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.
The 2010-11 Humanities Lectures Series, sponsored by the Department of English and Humanities, will explore such topics as “borders and boundaries” in language and culture, humanity and technology, colonialism and postcolonialism, and faith and atheism. All events in the Series are open to the public free of charge.
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