Ania Loomba is Catherine Bryson Chair in the English at the University of Pennsylvania where she researches and teaches early modern literature, histories of race and colonialism, postcolonial studies, feminist theory, and contemporary Indian literature and culture. Her monographs include Gender, Race, Renaissance Drama (1989 and 1992) Colonialism/ Postcolonialism (Routledge, 1998; 2005; 2015; translations in Italian, Turkish, Japanese, Indonesian, Swedish, Polish); Shakespeare, Race, and Colonialism (2002); Revolutionary desires: women, communism, and feminism in India (2018). Edited books include Cultural History of Western Empires in the Renaissance (Bloomsbury, 2018); Rethinking Feminism: Gender, Race and Sexuality in the Early Modern World (2016); South Asian Feminisms (Duke University Press, 2012); critical edition of Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra (Norton, 2011); Race in Early Modern England: A Documentary Companion (Palgrave, 2007); Postcolonial Studies and Beyond (2005); Post-colonial Shakespeares (1998).