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Homi K. Bhabha is Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities, Department of English, Harvard University; Director of the Humanities Center at Harvard; and Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Humanities at University College, London. His book, Location of Culture, has recently been reprinted as a Routledge Classic and has been translated into Korean, Spanish, Italian, German, Arabic, and Portuguese.

Most recently, he completed the introduction to a new translation of Franz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth; "Still Life," an essay on the work of the photographer, Michel Safdie; and a catalogue essay on the African Artist, Georges Adeagbo, which has been translated into German and republished in Berlin. He has lectured extensively around the world. Most recently, he delivered the Presidential Lecture at the Freie Universität Berlin, "Globalization and Cultural Identity," as well as keynotes at "State of the World" forum at the Gulbenkian Foundation (Lisbon); Scope II: Sites and Sounds-Narrating Heritage, co-sponsored by three Austrian ministries (Vienna);the Goethe-Institut meeting of all directors of its international Goethe Instituts; and for the Volkswagen Foundation "Boundaries: Differences. Passages--Passages: Approaches in the Contested Fields of Inter- and Transcultural Communication" conference (Dresden). Previously, he gave the keynote addresses for the Colloquium on Research and Higher Education organized by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), and the Ralph Miliband Lecture at the London School of Economics. He has been given the honor of delivering the Beckman Lectures at the University of California, Berkeley and the Presidential Lectures at Stanford University. He inaugurated the Democracy Unrealized platform of Documenta 11 in Berlin, and was a special guest at the Goteborg, Frankfurt, Edinboro, and Turin Book Fairs. He has also served as a Faculty Advisor to the DAVOS World Economic Forum, and holds honorary visiting professorships at the University of Michigan, Tsinghua University, and the University of Naples.

Educated at the University of Bombay and the University of Oxford, Bhabha advises key arts institutions which include the Institute of Contemporary Arts London, the Whitney Museum of American Arts, New York, and the Rockefeller Foundation. He has published widely in journals including New Formations, October, Oxford Literary Review and Screen. He sits on the editorial board of, amongst others, October, Critical Inquiry, and New Formations, and is a regular contributor to Artforum. Bhabha is currently at work on A Measure of Dwelling, a theory of vernacular cosmopolitanism forthcoming from Harvard University Press and The Right to Narrate, forthcoming from Columbia University Press. In addition to his numerous academic accolades, Bhabha has been profiled in such publications as Newsweek, which named him one of "100 Americans for the Next Century," Chicago magazine, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and the New York Times, and has appeared on numerous radio broadcasts on the BBC and elsewhere.