Homi K. Bhabha is the Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities in the English Department and Comparative Literature Department at Harvard University. At Harvard, he served as the director of the Humanities Center, founding director of the Mahindra Humanities Center, and in the inaugural position of Senior Advisor to the President and Provost. He is a Corresponding Fellow at The British Academy and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and sits on the board of the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art. He was Critic-in-Residence at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and has held advisory positions with institutions including the Museum of Modern Art, the Rolex Foundation, UNESCO, and the World Economic Forum. He is the author of numerous works exploring postcolonial theory, cultural change and power, contemporary art, and cosmopolitanism. His works include The Location of Culture, which was reprinted as a Routledge Classic, and the edited volume Nation and Narration. Bhabha has also written on contemporary art, including essays on the work of William Kentridge, Anish Kapoor, Taryn Simon, and Matthew Barney, amongst others. With the support of the Volkswagen and Mellon Foundations, Bhabha has led a research project on the Global Humanities. In 1997 he was profiled by Newsweek as one of “100 Americans for the Next Century.” He holds honorary degrees from Université Paris 8, University College London, Freie Universität Berlin, and Stellenbosch University. He has been awarded the Humboldt Research Prize and the Government of India’s Padma Bhushan Presidential Award in the field of literature and education, and spoken at the Vatican.
