Born: 1949.

Education: Elphinstone College, University of Mumbai, BA, 1970; MA, MPhil, and DPhil, Christ Church, Oxford University, 1990.

Bhabha taught in the Department of English at the University of Sussex, became Old Dominion Visiting Professor at Princeton University, and then Steinberg Visiting Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. From 1997 to 2001 he served as Chester D. Tripp Professor in the Humanities at the University of Chicago. In 2001–2002, he served as a distinguished visiting professor at University College, London. He has been the Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of English and American literature and language at Harvard University since 2001. He has been faculty fellow at the School of Criticism and Theory. Professor Bhabha initiated contact between decolonization and advanced literary theory. His interventions have woven psychoanalytic thought, especially that of Jacques Lacan, with deconstruction and critical race theory. He has affirmed that power is always limited in its ability to determine identities and control representations and has formulated new conceptions, such as hybridity, that have influentially redefined the subject of postcolonial studies.

Publications

Nation and Narration (ed. 1990); The Location of Culture (1994); The Location of Culture (2004, Routledge Classics); Still Life (2004); Adagio (2004); Edward Said: Continuing the Conversation (2005; co-ed. with W. J. T. Mitchell); Framing Fanon (2005); The Black Savant and the Dark Princess (2006); Elusive Objects (2009); On Global Memory (2009); Beyond Photography (2011); and Our Neighbours, Ourselves (2011).

His articles and chapters include “What Does the Black Man Want?” New Formations (1987); “Remembering Fanon: Self, Psyche, and the Colonial Condition,” Remaking History (1989); “Hybridité, identité et culture contemporaine,” Magiciens de la terre (1989); “Articulating the Archaic: Notes on Colonial Nonsense,” Literary Theory Today (1990); “DissemiNation: Time, Narrative, and the Margins of the Modern Nation,” Nation and Narration (1990); “Interrogating Identity: The Postcolonial Prerogative,” Anatomy of Racism (1990); “Freedom's Basis in the Indeterminate,” October (1992); “Postcolonial Criticism,” Redrawing the Boundaries: The Transformation of English and American Literary Studies (1992); “Of Mimicry and Man: The Ambivalence of Colonial Discourse,” Modern Literary Theory: A Reader (1992); “Postcolonial Authority and Postmodern Guilt,” Cultural Studies (1992); “The World and the Home,” Social Text (1992); “Unsatisfied: Notes on Vernacular Cosmopolitanism,” Text and Nation: Cross-Disciplinary Essays on Cultural and National Identities (1996); “World and the Home,” Dangerous Liaisons: Gender, Nation, and Postcolonial Perspectives (1997); “Front Lines/Border Posts,”