Ania Loomba Delivers the 2024 Charles Homer Haskins Prize Lecture

The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) is pleased to announce that Ania Loomba will deliver the Charles Homer Haskins Prize Lecture at the 2024 ACLS Annual Meeting on May 3, 2024 at 6:00 PM EDT.

Ania Loomba, the Catherine Bryson Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, College of Arts & Sciences, received her BA (Hons.), M. A., and M. Phil. degrees from the University of Delhi, India, and her Ph.D. from the University of Sussex, UK. Before coming to Penn in 2003, she taught at the University of Delhi and Jawaharlal Nehru University in India, the University of Tulsa, and the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She researches and teaches early modern literature, histories of race and colonialism, postcolonial studies, feminist theory, and contemporary Indian literature and culture.

Named for Charles Homer Haskins, the first chairman of ACLS, the Haskins Prize Lecture series is entitled “A Life of Learning” and celebrates scholarly careers of distinctive importance.

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