Dr. Ania Loomba, the Catherine Bryson Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, will deliver a lecture titled “The Venture of the Cat: Racial Capitalism in Premodern England” Thursday, Oct. 26, at the Richard M. Summers Memorial Lecture at The University of Toledo.
Hosted by the Department of English Language and Literature, the free public lecture runs from 5 to 7 p.m. in Rocket Hall Room 1530 on Main Campus.
Loomba
Loomba is world-renown scholar who researches and teaches early modern literature, histories of race and colonialism, postcolonial studies, feminist theory and contemporary Indian literature and culture.
Loomba is the author of multiple books, including “Gender, Race, Renaissance Drama” (Manchester University Press, 1989; Oxford University Press, 1992); “Colonialism/ Postcolonialism” (Routledge, 1998); “Shakespeare, Race, and Colonialism (Oxford University Press, 2002); and “Revolutionary Desires: Women, Communism, and Feminism in India” (Routledge 2018).
She has co-edited “Post-colonial Shakespeares” (Routledge, 1998); “Postcolonial Studies and Beyond” (Duke University Press, 2005); “Race in Early Modern England: A Documentary Companion” (Palgrave, 2007); and “South Asian Feminisms” (co-edited with Ritty A. Lukose, Duke University Press, 2012). She is series editor (with David Johnson of the Open University, UK) of “Postcolonial Literary Studies” (Edinburgh University Press).
The Richard M. Summers Memorial Lecture is made possible by an endowment fund established by Mrs. Marie Summers to honor her son, a member of the UToledo Department of English from 1966 until his death on Nov. 5, 1988. Since 1990, it has annually brought to campus a distinguished writer, literary scholar or critic to speak on literature or its relationship to language, culture or art.
For more information on this year’s Richard M. Summers Memorial Lecture, visit the event’s website.
