Curriculum Vitae
Education
D.Phil. in English Literature, Christ Church, Oxford
M.Phil. and M.A. in English and American Literature, Christ Church, Oxford
B.A. with Honors, Elphinstone College, University of Bombay
Employment
Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of English and American Literature, Harvard University, 2001
Visiting Professor, University College, London, 1998
Chester D. Tripp Distinguished Service Professor in the Humanities, University of Chicago, 1996-2000
Professor of English Literature, University of Chicago, 1994
Reader in English Literature, Sussex University, 1978-94
Part-time lecturer in Colonial Literature, University of Warwick, 1977-78
Tutor in Literary Theory and Modern Literature, Wadham and St. Anne's Colleges, Oxford, 1976-78
Fellowships
Fellowship, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, 2001-2002
Senior Fellow, Council of the Humanities and Old Dominion Visiting Professor in English, Princeton University, 1992
Burrowes Fellow, University of Queensland, Brisbane, 1991
Visiting Fellow at the Center for Cultural Studies, University of Pennsylvania, 1989
Visiting Fellow, Center for Critical Cultural Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, 1989
Followed by a visiting fellowship at the Center for Critical Theory, University of California, 1989
British Council Scholarship, Violet Vaughan-Morgan Graduate Fellowship, Oxford University, 1976-1978
Honors
Clarendon Lectures, University of Oxford, 2003
Honorary Professorship at Tsinghua University, 2002
Convocation Address, University of Chicago, 2001
Koehn Visiting Scholar, University of Oregon, 2000
Stanford Presidential Lectures in the Humanities and Arts, Stanford University, 2000
Martin Luther King, Jr, Cesar Chavez, Rosa Parks Honorary Visiting Professor, University of Michigan, 2000
Asian American Institute Milestone Award, 2000
The Beckman Lectures, University of California, Berkeley, 1999
The Amnesty Human Rights Lecture, University of Oxford, 1999
The W.E.B. Du Bois Lectures, Harvard University, 1999
Distinguished Visiting Professor at Ben Gurion University, Israel, 1999
Annual Humanities Draper Lecture for the John W. Draper Program in Graduate Studies, New York University, 1998
Distinguished Humanities Professor, University of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, 1992
Burrowes Visiting Professor, English Department, University of Queensland, Australia, 1991
Editorial/Advisory Positions
Guest editor of special issue of Critical Inquiry (Spring 1997) entitled "Frontlines and Borderposts;" published in book form by University of Chicago Press
Columnist for Artforum
Editorial Board, New Formations
Editorial Board, OCTOBER
Editor, Oxford Literary Review
Editorial Board, Difference: A Feminist Journal of Cultural Studies
Advisory Editor, Modern Fiction Studies
Advisory Editor, Third Text (British Arts Council Funded)
Served on the 2000 University of California, Santa Cruz History of Consciousness program review committee
Board of Trustees, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
Director, Board of Trustees, International Institute of the Visual Arts, London
Consultant, Rockefeller Foundation, Division of Arts and Humanities
Special Advisor to David Ross, Director of the Whitney Museum, the National Museum of American Art, New York
Consultant, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
Consultant to Whitney Museum of American Arton their millennial show, "The American Century
Advisor to Anna DeVeare Smith, Performance Artist
Interviews/Profiles
"Harvard's Prize Catch, a Delphic Postcolonialist," New York Times, November 17, 2001
"V.S. Naipaul," written article on the work of V.S. Naipaul, The Chronicle of Higher Education, October 26, 2001
Interview on V.S. Naipaul, "All Things Considered," National Public Radio, October 12, 2001
"Intellectuals in Public Life," with Stanley Fish, "Odyssey," Chicago Public Radio, September 28, 2001
"A Narrative of Divided Civilizations," written article on the September 11 tragedy for The Chronicle of Higher Education, September 28, 2001
"A Question of Respect," BBC Radio 4, August 2001
"Culture and Museums," "Odyssey," Chicago Public Radio, February 10, 2001
"Mona Lisa," "Odyssey," Chicago Public Radio, April 19, 2001
BBC Radio Nightwaves appearance, February 2000
Series on the History of Race and Culture, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, March 1, 1999
BBC World Service appearance, February 23,1999
BBC Radio Nightwaves appearance, February 23,1999
"The South Bank Show," interview by Melvyn Bragg, December 9 1998
Special Programme on the 50th Anniversary of Human Rights, BBC Radio 4, December 8 1998
Interviewed in documentary on Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, December 1998
Half-hour discussion on Australian National Radio on "The Question of Whiteness," June 17, 1998
BBC Special Program to celebrate 50th anniversary of Indian independence, August 15 1997
Profiled as one of "100 Americans for the Next Century" in Newsweek, April 17, 1997
On-air panelist during discussion on "The British Empire" on BBC Scotland, March 1997
Profiled in the Chronicle of Higher Education, March 22, 1996
Presented "Letters from Chicago," BBC, July 1995
BBC Horizon Television: One of four commentators (with Tony Benn and Ian Banks) on the last thirty years of Horizon -- in particular its cultural assumptions, May 23,1994
Channel 4 Television Programme: "Contemporary Asian artists working in England," September 1994
Channel 4 Television Programme: "'J' Accuse' on Philip Larkin," January 1993.
"The Postcolonial Critic," by David Bennett and Terry Collits, ARENA, Melbourne University," Melbourne, 1991
"Bombay Mix" Talk for BBC Radio Four Series, November 1990
"Interview with Homi K. Bhabha," Emergence. No. 1, University of California, Los Angeles, Spring 1990
"The Third Space: Interview with Homi K. Bhabha," Changing Identities, J. Rutherford(Ed.), London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1990
Papers
"On the Construction of the Colonial Subject," Southampton University and Oxford Literary Review, Text and Theory, 1981
"Literature Tells You How to Live: From Invocation to Exhortation," University Teachers of English Annual Conference,1982
"On the Colonial Text: V.S. Naipaul's A House for Mr. Biswas," Faculty of English and Modern Languages, Oxford University, 1982
"Realism and Colonial Desire," Sociology of Literature Conference, Essex University, 1982
Modern Language Association Convention, New York, Special session on Colonial Discourse, 1983
"Racism and the Media," Conference on Racism, Greater London Council, Institute of Education, University of London, 1983
Essex University, Sociology of Literature Conference, Opening plenary lecture, 1984
Modern Language Association Convention, Washington, D.C. Forum on Colonization, 1984
"Sexuality and the Construction of Culture in Colonial Discourse," Brown UniversityConference at Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women, 1985
"Cultural Difference," Southampton UniversityInternational Conference on Text and Theory, 1985
"Psychoanalysis, and Postcolonialism--Nation, Identity, Self," Conference of the Association for the Psychoanalysis of Self and Society, George Washington University, 1985
British Art History Association Annual Conference. Plenary panel to respond to Professor Edward Said's opening address, 1986
Conference on "Nation and Narration," Humanities Research Center, Cornell University, 1986
International Symposium on New Perspectives on Democracy and Civil Society at the Polytechnic of Central London, 1986
"Double Vision: Reflections through a Colonial Eye," Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, 1986
Edinburgh Festival, International Film Conference. Plenary address with Ngugi Wa Thiongo at the Conference on Theory and Third Cinema, 1986
Paper presented to the Five College Critical Theory Seminar at the University of Massachusetts, Institute of Contemporary Cultural Studies, 1986
Oxford English Conference at Oxford University - Rethinking Literary History, 1987
Pembroke Visiting Scholar, at the Pembroke Center for Feminist Studies, Brown University, 1987
Ideas in Progress, Graduate/Faculty Seminar, Middlesex Polytechnic University, 1987
The Writer and Political Commitment: Plenary panel with Ronald Hayman, 1987
"Ethnicity and Identity," Centre for Cultural Studies, Leeds University, 1988
"Colonial Time," Faculty/Graduate Seminar, Essex University, 1988
"Nation and Narration," Social and Political Thought Seminar, Cambridge University, 1988
"The Reception of Literature," Finnish Academy and the Research Unit for Cultural Studies, University of Jyvaskyla. Plenary lectures with Professor Hans Robert Jauss on work of Finnish and Scandinavian scholars, 1988
"The Inscription of Colonial Territory: Australian Aborigines and Palestinian Refugees," Australian Bicentennial Conference, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, 1988
"Contemporary Black British Cinema," British Film Institute Conference, Brighton Festival of the Arts, 1988
"Postmodernism and the Postcolonial Artist," Gallery Discussion at Ikon Art Gallery, Birmingham, 1988
"'Critical Difference,' Race, Ethnicity and the Visual Arts," Chaired the Plenary Session, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton University, 1988
"DissemiNation: On the Culture of Identity," History/Event/Discourse Conference at the University of California, Los Angeles,1989
Lecture at the Center for Cultural Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1989
Lecture to the Faculty of English, University of California, Berkeley, 1989
"Between Race and Gender: On the Hybridity of Theory," Association of British Art Historians, Annual Conference, 1989
"Critical Fictions," DIA Art Foundation, New York, 1990
Lecture and paper presented at the PARSS Seminar, 1990
Lectured at "Changing Identities: Socialism and the Politics of Difference,"
University of London, Lawrence and Wishart, Publishers, 1990
"Identity, Alterity and Cultural Hybridity," Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, as part of the Colloquium on their exhibition of transnational art, "Les Magiciens de la Terre," 1990
"Con-founding Fathers," Conference on Nationality and Sexuality, Center for Literary and Cultural Studies, Harvard University, 1990
Lectured at the Colonial Discourse Conference, Southampton University, 1990
"Postmodernism and its Discontents," Whitney Museum, New York, 1990
Presented a paper at the Conference on Diasporic Cultures at the Center for Cultural Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1990
Lectured at the PARSS Seminar on Afro-American Studies, University of Pennsylvania, 1990
Lectured in the series on Authorship and Authority, Kings and Emmanuel Colleges, University of Cambridge, 1990
Lectured, Humanities Institute Conference, Visiting Scholar, Humanities Institute, SUNY-Stonybrook, 1990
Paper presented at the International Colloquium on Cultural Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1990
Lectured on theory seminars, Harvard University,1990
Keynote Address to VeniceBiennale Arts International (Rockefeller) Conference "Expanding Internationalism,"1990
"History and the 'real event'," Davis Center for Historical Studies, Princeton University, 1990
"Questions of Social Marginality and Cultural Borders," University of California, San Diego,1990
Paper presented at "Heritage and Memory" Conference, Humanities Research Centre of the Australian National University, 1990
Keynote to the "Literature and Opposition Conference," Australian and South Pacific Association of Comparative Literary Studies, Melbourne, Australia, 1991
Public lecture at the Power Institute, Sydney University, 1991
Keynote to the "De-scribing Colonialism" Conference, University of Queensland, Brisbane, 1991
Keynote address to the annual conference of the Italian Professors of English, Venice, 1991
Lecture at the "Identity in Question" conference sponsored by OCTOBER magazine, CUNY Graduate Center and the College de Philosophie, Paris, 1991
Critical Inquiry Lecture, University of Chicago, 1992
Seminar to the Whitney Museum, Independent Scholars programme, 1992
Keynote Speaker, "Postcolonialism: Theory and Practice" Conference, The University of British Columbia, 1992
"Encountering Space: Identity and Place in the Human Sciences," Critical Theory Series Conference, University of California, Davis, 1992
Lectured at the GeorgetownLiterary Criticism Conference, 1992
Lectured at the "Minority Discourse" Conference, Humanities Research Institute, University of California, Irvine, 1992
Colloquium entitled "The Marginality of the First World: Multicultural Perspectives in Contemporary Art," MIT, 1992
James Hoffman Memorial Lecture in Comparative Literature, Dartmouth College, 1993
Keynote talk to the Committee for International Museum Exchange, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, 1993
Keynote at the 4th National Photography Conference, Arnolfini and Watershed Galleries, Bristol, U.K., 1993
Keynote speaker at the Conference organized by the Maryland Fine Arts Gallery, Visual Arts Department, University of Maryland, Baltimore, 1993
"In the English Manor: Melancholic Masculinity and the Postcolonial 'British' Novel: (Ishiguro, Naipaul, Kureishi and others)," Institute of Commonwealth Studies Conference on "Genders and Nationalities," University of London, 1993
Keynote at the conference on Culture and Nationality at University of Victoria, Canada, 1994
Keynote at the American Comparative Literature Annual Conference, Claremont Graduate Center, 1994
Presented the Annual Distinguished Lecture to the Philological Society at the Center for Hispanic and Italian Studies, English, and the Humanities Center, Johns Hopkins University, 1994
Presented lecture entitled "Colonialism in the Light of Psychoanalysis" at the Theory Seminar, University of Virginia, 1995
Presented Presidential Lecture for symposium "House, Home, Homeland" at Rice University, Houston, TX, 1995
Moderated Panel on "English as a Second Culture" at Crossing
Cultures/Crossing Canons Forum, City University of New York, 1995
"Outcast Anxiety," Race, Identity and Public Culture Conference, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, 1995
Presented lecture at University of Hawaii, 1995
Featured speaker at Conference on Psychoanalysis and Post-Colonialism, George Washington University, Washington, D.C., 1995
Lectured at conference on "Identifications: Possibilities and Limits," University of Richmond, VA, 1995
Presented lecture entitled "Culture and Victimage: Constructions of Cosmopolitanism" and Workshop "On Cultural Translation" at Alice Berline Kaplan Center for the Humanities, Northwestern University, 1995
Participant in the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Roundtable on Creativity, 1996
Keynote Address of "Locations, Cultures, Topographies: Diaspora in Cultural Criticism," Yale University, 1996
Seminar at the Whitney Museum Independent Scholars program, 1996
Moderator, Panel on "Methodology, Theory, and Paradigm Shifts" at symposium on "Cinema Studies in the Age of Global Media," University of Chicago, 1996
"The Nearness of You" at The English Institute, Harvard University, 1996
Chaired series of events commemorating 50th Anniversary of the Institute of Comtemporary Arts, London, 1996
Lectured at Center for Twentieth Century Studies, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, 1996
"Culture and Victimage: Constructions of Cosmopolitanism," The Claim of Theories Lecture Series, Northwestern University, 1996
Lectured in series entitled "Cultural Encounters: Communicating Otherness," University of Sussex, 1996
Lectured at symposium on Post-Colonialism and Global Migration, at Steirischer Herbst 96, Graz, 1996
"Whose Modernity Is It Anyway?," Studies in Modern Art: Modern Stories Lecture Series, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1997
"Locations of Culture," Keynote lecture, Michigan State University, 1997
Lectured on "Sex & Play" at Chicago Humanities Festival, 1997
Lectured at the "Equality in Unequal Conditions" Conference at Heinrich Böll Stiftung e. V., Hamburg, 1997
Lecture on "Vernacular Cosmopolitanism," Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, 1997
"In the Middle of Difference: On the Sense of Human Agency," The Sense of the Senses Congress, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, 1997
Panelist for "Constituencies: To Whom and For Whom Do Public Intellectuals Speak?," Public Intellectuals and the Future of Graduate Study Conference, University of Chicago, 1997
"A Choice of Culture," Lamont Lecture in Human Rights, Amherst College, 1998
"Cultural Respect," The Turn to Ethics Conference, Harvard University, 1998
"Choosing Culture: With All Due Respect," Humanities Center, Critical Theory Institute, University of California, Irvine, Distinguished Lecturer, 1998
Delivered lecture on "Race, Culture, and Difference," Centre for Sociological and Social Anthropological Studies, The Open University, The Stuart Hall Conference, 1998
"Cultural Choice and the Question of Respect," Intercultural Communications Conference, Samuel Beckett Centre, Trinity College, Dublin, 1998
"One of Us: Meditations on the Right to Culture," Freie Universität, Berlin, 50th anniversary symposium of Free University: "Models of Cultural Appropriation Today," 1998
Presented lecture at Bavarian America Academy at Universities of Munich and Erlangen conference on "Multicultural Societies on the Threshold of the 21st Century: Intercultural and Transcultural Developments," 1998
Delivered four seminars on "The Translatability of Cultures" at the Stuttgart Seminar in Cultural Studies, Germany, 1998
Lecture at The Midwest Faculty Seminar on Toni Morrison's Beloved, 1998
Lecture at The University of Innsbruck, Austria, Conference, 1998
Plenary Speaker at Middle Eastern Studies Association Conference, Chicago, Illinois, 1998
Modern Language Association Plenary with Stephen Greenblatt and Edward Said, San Francisco, California, 1998
Keynote speaker at New World(dis)Orders Conference at Rutgers University, 1999
Keynote speaker at University of Notre Dame, 1999
Presented paper at Border Crossings, University of Minnesota Romance Languages Symposium, 1999
Speaker at The Minor and Minority in South Asia Conference at Princeton University, 1999
Keynote speaker at Race, Nation, Aesthetic & Fabrication of Modernities Conference at University of California, Los Angeles, 1999
Keynote at University of Miami Law and Society Conference, 1999
Presented paper at University of Chicago Conference on George Orwell's 1984, 1999
Banerjee Memorial Lecture given at University of Mumbai, Mumbai, India, 1999
Panelist at University of Chicago Brooklyn MuseumControversy Conference, 2000
Lectured at Duke University Conference, 2000
Lectured at Einstein Forum conference, Potsdam, Germany, 2000
Lectured at Radical Philosophy conference, London, 2000
Lectured at Nexus Institute, Amsterdam, 2000
Whitney Museum, New York, New York, 2000
Keynote Address at Re(placing) the Nation Conference, Harvard University, 2002
Lectured at Summer Institute National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, Beijing
University, Tsinghua University, National Taiwan University, 2002
Chair of Modern Language Association Panel, "The Haunting of History," 2002
Columbia University Humanities Festival Lecture, 2003
Harvard University Book Trouble Series, 2003
Books
Edward Said: Continuing the Conversation, University of Chicago Press, 2005
The Location of Culture, 2002; Also translated into Korean, Spanish, Italian, and German
Cosmopolitanism, with Sheldon Pollock, Dipesh Chakrabarty, Carol A. Breckenridge, (Eds.), 2002
O Local da Cultura, Portugese translation of The Location of Culture, 1998
The Location of Culture, Routledge, 1993
Edited Books
Nation and Narration, with introduction and essay, Routledge, 1990
Articles
"Apologies For Poetry," Journal of the School of Languages, Jawaharal Nehru University, Monsoon, 1975
"Some Problems of Nationalist Criticism," Literature and History, Spring 1979
"The Other Question," The Politics of Theory, Francis Barker, (Ed.) Proceedings of the Essex Conferences on the Sociology of Literature, 1982. Colchester, University of Essex, 1983
"The Other Question...Homi Bhabha Reconsiders the Stereotype and Colonial Discourse," Screen, 24.6, 1983
"Representations and the Colonial Text: A critical exploration of some forms of mimeticism," Theories of Reading, Frank Goldsmith, (Ed.) Harvester, 1983
"Difference, Discrimination and the Discourse of Colonialism," The Other Question, Essex University Press, 1983
"Of Mimicry and Man," 'The Ambivalence of Colonial Discourse,' OCTOBER New York1984, MIT Press. Reprinted in Beliefs and Ideologies, Open University Press, 1986. Selected for OCTOBER, 10th Anniversary Anthology, MIT Press, 1987
"Signs taken for Wonders: Questions of Ambivalence and Authority under a tree outside Delhi, May 1817," Critical Inquiry special issue on "Race, Writing and Difference," Fall 1985. Republished as a book by University of Chicago Press.
"Sly Civility," OCTOBER, MIT Press, New York, 1985
Introduction to the English paperback edition of Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks, Pluto/Zwan, 1986
"The Commitment to Theory," Third Cinema Reader, British Film Institute, 1989
"Interrogating Identity," Postmodernism and the Question of Identity, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Document 6,1988
"Opening the Floodgates," Poetics Today, Volume 8, No. 1, 1987
"The Commitment to Theory," New Formations 5, 1988
"Remembering Fanon: Self, Psyche, and the Colonial Condition," Remaking History, Barbara Kruger and Phil Mariani, (Ed.), Seattle, Bay Press, 1989
"Down Among the Writers," New Statesman & Society, 2.60, 1989
"At the Limits: Homi K. Bhabha on The Power of the Text," Artforum, 27.9, 1989
"Imaginings," New Statesman & Society, 2.70, 1989
"Hybridity, heterogeneity et culture contemporaraine," Centre Pompidou, National Museum of Modern Art, Paris, for inclusion in the catalogue of their major transnational art show for the bicentenary, Les Magiciens de la Terre, 1989
"The Wrong Story," New Statesman & Society, 2.80, 1989
"The Postcolonial Prerogative," The Anatomy of Racism, David Goldberg, (Ed.), Theory and History of Literature Series, Minnesota University Press, 1990
"A Question of Survival: Language, Nation, People," Psychoanalysis and Culture, James Donald, (Ed.), London: Macmillan, 1990
"Articulating the Archaic: Notes on Colonial Nonsense," Literary Theory Today, Peter Collier and Helga Geyer-Ryan, (Ed.), Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1990
"Novel Metropolis," New Statesman & Society, 3.88, 1990
"Beyond Fundamentalism and Liberalism: Thoughts on the Rushdie Affair," The New Statesman, reprinted in The Rushdie File, Appignanesi and Maitland, (Ed.) 1990
"The Other Question: Difference, Discrimination, and the Discourse of Colonialism," Out There: Marginalization and Contemporary Cultures, Russell Ferguson, Martha Gever, Trin T. Minh-ha, and Cornel West, (Ed.), New York, The New Museum of Contemporary Art and MIT Press, 1990 and Cornell University Press, 1991
"Postcolonial Authority and Postmodern Guilt," Cultural Studies, Grossberg, Nelson, Treichler, (Ed.), London, Routledge, 1991
"A Question of Survival: Nations and Psychic States," Psychoanalysis and Cultural Theory: Thresholds, James Donald, (Ed.) New York, St. Martin's Press, 1991
"Threatening Pleasures," Sight & Sound 1, with Gilroy, Paul, Stuart Hall, 1991
"Art and National Identity: A Critics' Symposium," Art in America, 79.9, 1991
"Race, Time and the Revision of Modernity," Oxford Literary Review, Vol. 13, Robert Young, (Ed.), 1991
"Strategie per soggetti mimetici: L'intreccio delle culture dopo la fine de colonialismo," Il Manifesto, (Italian daily paper), 1991
"The Postcolonial and the Postmodern," Changing the Boundaries of the Discipline, G. Gunn and S. Greenblatt, (Ed.), Modern Language Association, 1992
"A Good Judge of Character: Men, Metaphors and the Common Culture," Race-ing Justice, Engendering Power, Toni Morrison, (Ed.), New York, Pantheon Books, 1992
"Postcolonial Criticism," Redrawing the Boundaries: The Transformation of English and American Literary Studies, Stephen Greenblatt and Giles Gunn, (Ed.) New York: MLA, 1992
"The Home and the World," Social Text 10, (1992)
"Postcolonial Authority and Postmodern Guilt," Cultural Studies, Lawrence Grossberg, Cary Nelson, and Paula A. Treichler, (Ed.), New York, Routledge, 1992
"Beyond the Pale: Art in the Age of Multicultural Translation," Catalog essay, New York Bienniale, Whitney Museum, 1993
"Culture's In Between," Artforum International 32.1, 1993
"Anxious Nations, Nervous States," Supposing the Subject, Joan Copjec, (Ed.), London: Verso, 1994
"Beyond the Pale: Art in the Age of Multicultural Translation," Kunst & Museumjournaal 5.4, (1994)
"Frontlines/Borderposts," Displacements: Cultural Identities in Question, Angelika Bammer, (Ed.) Bloomington, Indiana Univesity Press, 1994
"Signs Taken for Wonders," The Post-Colonial Studies Reader, Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, Helen Tiffin, (Ed.), London, Routledge, 1995
"Dance This Diss Around: Homi K. Bhabha on Victim Art," Artforum, 33.8, 1995
"Freedom's Basis in the Indeterminate." The Identity in Question. Ed. John Rajchman. New York: Routledge, 1995
"The Enchantment of Art," The Artist in Society: Rights, Roles, and Responsibilities. Carol Becker and Ann Wiens, (Ed.), Chicago, New Art Examiner Press, 1995
"Black and White and Read All Over," Artforum 34.2, 1995
"Are You a Man or a Mouse?," Constructing Masculinities, Maurice Berger, Brian Wallis, and Simon Watson, (Ed.) New York, Routledge, 1995
"'Black Male': The Whitney Museum of American Art," Artforum, 33.6, 1995
"Unpacking My Library Again," Journal of the Midwest , Modern Language Association, 28.1 (Spring 1995)
"Unpacking My Library . . . Again," The Post-Colonial Question: Common Skies, Divided Horizons, Iain Chambers, Lidia Curti, (Ed.), London, Routledge, 1996.
"Postmodernism/Postcolonialism," Critical Terms for Art History, Robert S. Nelson, Richard Shiff, (Ed.), Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996
"Laughing Stock," Artforum 35, 1996
"Editor's Introduction: Minority Maneuvers and Unsettled Negotiations," Critical Inquiry 23.3, 1997
"Queen's English," Artforum 35.7, 1997
"Halfway House," Artforum 35.9, 1997
"The Voice of the Dom: Retrieving the Experience of the Once-Colonized," Times Literary Supplement #4923, 1997
"Life at the Border: Hybrid Identities of the Present," New Perspectives Quarterly 14.1, 1997
"Homi Bhabha: 'La cultura de Internet no es cosmopolita', Magazín Literario, Cristina Fangmann, Claudia Kozak, 1997
"Liberalism's Sacred Cow," Boston Review 22.5, 1997
"Paean for Pluralism," India Today International, Vol. XXII No. 40, 1997
"The World and the Home," Dangerous Liaisons: Nation, & Postcolonial Perspectives, Anne McClintock, Aamir Mufti, Ella Short, (Ed.), Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 1997
"On the Irremovable Strangeness of Being Different," PMLA 113.1, 1998
"Conversational Art," Conversations at the Castle, Mary Jane Jacob, Michael Brenson, (Ed.), Cambridge, MIT Press, 1998
"Dazwischen, daneben, danach: Ein Interview mit dem Postkolonialismus-Theoretiker Homi K. Bhabha," Springerin 4.1, Christian Höller, 1998
"Dance This Diss Around," The Crisis of Criticism, Maurice Berger, (Ed.) New York, The New Press, 1998
"Joking Aside: The Idea of a Self-Critical Community," Modernity, Culture, and 'the Jew', Bryan Cheyette, Laura Marcus, (Ed.), Cambridge, Polity Press, 1998
"Day by Day . . . with Frantz Fanon," The Fact of Blackness--Frantz Fanon and Visual Representation, Alan Read, (Ed.), Institute of Contemporary Arts, Institute of International Visual Arts, Seattle, Bay Press, 1998
1000 Names, London,Lisson Gallery, 1998
Anish Kapoor, Exhibition Catalogue, Berkeley, Univ. of CaliforniaPress, 1998
"Anxiety in the Midst of Difference," PoLAR (Political and Legal Anthropology Review) 21.1, 1998
"The White Stuff," Artforum 36.9, 1998
"Americanization: Imaging the American Century," Whitney Museum publication, 1999
"On Cultural Choice" The Turn to Ethics, Marjorie Garber, Beatrice Hanssen, Rebecca L. Walkowitz, (Ed.), New York, Routledge, 2000
"A Narrative of Divided Civilizations," The Chronicle of Higher Education, 2001
"V.S. Naipaul," The Chronicle of Higher Education, 2001
"Border Lives: The Art of the Present," Defining Travel: Diverse Visions, Susan L. Roberson, (Ed.), Jackson, University Press of Mississippi, 2001
"Plocka isär demokratin och sätt ihop den på nytt," DN: Dagens Nyheter, 2002
"Speaking of Postcoloniality, in the Continuous Present: A Conversation," Relocating Postcolonialism, David Theo Goldberg, Ato Quayson, (Ed.), Oxford, Blackwell Publishers, 2002
"Afterword. A Personal Response," Rethinking Literary History, Linda Hutcheon and Mario J. Valdes, (Ed.), Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2002
"Connaissance de la democratie ou La democratie de-realisee," Diogene #197, 2002
"Plocka isär demokratin och sätt ihop den på nytt," DN: Dagens Nyheter, 2002
"Democracy De-Realized," Democracy Unrealized Documenta 11_Platform1, Okwui Enzenor, Carlos Basualdo, Ute Meta Bauer et al, (Ed.), Hatje Cantz Publishers, 2002
"Einige Reflexionen uber Globalisierung und Humanitat," Zwischen Nanowelt und Globaler Kultur: Science + Fiction, (jovis Verlag GmbH, 2003
Review Articles
"Frantz Fanon and the Psychology of Oppression," Review article on H.A. Bulhan, Race and Class, Winter 1987, Volume 8, No. 3
"Double Visions," Review article on "Circa 1492: Art in the Age of Exploration," Artforum 30.5, National Gallery, Washington, D.C. ,1992