Homi K. Bhabha Biography 
Homi K. Bhabha is a Professor of English and American Literature and Language who serves as the the Director of the Humanities Center at Harvard University. Widely recognized as one of the figures who gave significant contributions to the contemporary post-colonial studies, Indian government has honoured him with Padma Bhushan in 2012. He has given outstanding contributions to the fields of literature and education. He formulated Bhabha's theory and has developed a number of the field's neologisms and key concepts, such as hybridity, mimicry, difference, and ambivalence, which describe ways in which colonised peoples have resisted the power of the colonizer.
He was born in Mumbai, India in 1949. He is married to Harvard lecturer Jacqueline Bhabha and the couple has three kids. Noted American actor Satya Bhabha is their third child. Bhabha was born into a Parsi family in Mumbai. He graduated in English from Elphinstone College, Mumbai. Then he moved to US where he completed M.A., M. Phil, and D. Phil. in English Literature from Christ Church, Oxford University. He started off his professional career as an English lecturer at University of Sussex, where he worked for 10 long years. Later he received a senior fellowship at Princeton University and also became Old Dominion Visiting Professor.
Later he worked under various universities and colleges as a professor/visiting professor which includes - University of Pennsylvania, Dartmouth College, University of Chicago, University College London, Harvard University etc. He also serves on the Editorial Collective of Public Culture. Though his ideas and key concepts on hybridity, mimicry, ambivalence, Cultural difference, enunciation and stereotype were widely well received, Bhabha has been criticized for using indecipherable jargon and dense prose.
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Updated: December 24, 2015
