Homi K. Bhabha (; born 1949) is the Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of English and American Literature and Language, and the Director of the Humanities Center at
Harvard University. He is one of the most important figures in contemporary
post-colonial studies, and has developed a number of the field's neologisms and key concepts, such as
hybridity, mimicry, difference, and ambivalence. Such terms describe ways in which colonised peoples have resisted the power of the coloniser, according to Bhabha's theory. In 2012, he received the
Padma Bhushan award in the field of literature and education from the Indian government.