Ania Loomba - University of Pennsylvania

Professor: Ania Loomba

Department: TBD

College: University of Pennsylvania

Rating # 1

Overview:

• Course: ENG393
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Professor Loomba is a knowledgeable scholar. You can glean that from reading her many books. As a teacher, however, her pedagogy is non-existent, her feedback is harsh, oddly personal, and often unclear, and she gets overly defensive and even offended when disagreed with. In private, she'll make comments that cut deeply. Beware.

Rating # 2

Overview:

• Course: ENGL316
• Grade Received: B+
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Professor is unprofessional and condescending. She does not have compassion for non native English speakers or low income students. The professor thinks only her opinions of things are correct. The professor does not respect other cultures and is an intellectual bully, as the previous comment states.

Rating # 3

Overview:

• Course: ENGLISH595
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Terrible experience with Ania Loomba. She is often historically wrong and is a an intellectual bully with little compassion for poor students, though she claims to be postcolonial all day long.

Rating # 4

Overview:

• Course: ENG000
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.5
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Ania Loomba is a poor intellectual. If your views are different to those of Loomba she starts raving and ranting and saying amazingly rude things in a crude manner.

Rating # 5

Overview:

• Course: ENGL103
• Grade Received: B+
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

By far the most disrespectful professor I have ever encountered in school. Nasty in office hours. She is not willing to help, clarify, or provide HELPFUL feedback to students. I regret taking her class, and I would not recommend anyone to take her course.

Rating # 6

Overview:

• Course: ENG214
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

boring and disrespectful.

Rating # 7

Overview:

• Course: COS126
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Mediocre

Rating # 8

Overview:

• Course: ENG93
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

She is awesome. Most students say that about professors that are either easy or laid back, (she isn't either one of those things), but what she is is brilliant. Amazingly smart, and will challenge you ideas and how you think. SHE IS NOT RUDE or disrespectful to students in class or in office hours. Don't expect to be coddled but to be challenged.

Rating # 9

Overview:

• Course: ENGL00
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Extremely RUDE. Not as brilliant as others have made her out to be. Class was fairly easy, rather boring. Her angry rants should not be mistaken for a genuine interest in the subject matter.

Rating # 10

Overview:

• Course: ENG000
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Can be very intense but totally inspirational.

Rating # 11

Overview:

• Course: ENG393
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

brilliant.

Rating # 12

Overview:

• Course: ENGL000
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.5
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

By far the most disrespectful English Professor I have ever had. Does not seem to respect other cultures, either.

Rating # 13

Overview:

• Course: ENGL00
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

A shame such an intelligent person cannot be as gifted in dealing with people respectfully. Exceedingly arrogant and not worth learning from.

Rating # 14

Overview:

• Course: ENGL316
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

I added her class only to find that she had singled me out in a crude, malicious tone during the first five minutes for adding the class late and not knowing what book we would be using that day. Other students, as well as professors, later approached me saying that they felt sorry for me and that she was just usually "mean" and "judgemental".

Rating # 15

Overview:

• Course: ENG000
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

She is the reason I didnt become an English major like I thought I would Freshman year. She is really cruel in office hours, like another poster said. In class she is interesting and enjoyable, but she really says hurtful and rude things to you in personal meetings.

Rating # 16

Overview:

• Course: ENGL031
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Prof. Loomba is amazing. She takes you not just through the texts, but the surrounding contexts, reading cultures as well as plays, poetry, etc. She really challenges you to think, to attack questions is ways you never have before. Plus she is amazingly nice, and brought cookies for us on more than one occasion. Take a class with her.

Rating # 17

Overview:

• Course: ENG214
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

amazing

Rating # 18

Overview:

• Course: EMPIRE
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Brilliant and fair.

Rating # 19

Overview:

• Course: ENGL231
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

very smart and interesting in class. not available very much outside of class but her excitement for intellectual material is contagious.

Rating # 20

Overview:

• Course: ENGLISH595
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Great in class, but NASTY in office hours. No respect for students' intelligence, efforts, commitment. Assignments unclear. Takes offence and goes on the attack if you ask her to clarify. Tells students she doesn't have time to help them. Her general message is that you should just give up.