Lisa Lowe

Lisa Lowe

Photo by Madeline Lear (2015)
Awards Guggenheim Fellow, American Council of Learned Societies Fellow, School of Advanced Study University of London
Website ase.tufts.edu/english/people/lowe.htm
Academic background
Alma mater University of California, Santa Cruz, Stanford University
Academic work
Institutions University of California, San Diego, Tufts University, Yale University
Main interests Comparative literature, Asian American studies, race and colonialism, transnational feminism, British empire
Notable works Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics, The Intimacies of Four Continents

Lisa Lowe is Professor of English and American Studies at Tufts University,[1] and a member of the consortium of Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora.[2] Prior to joining Tufts in 2012, she taught at Yale University and at the University of California, San Diego.[3] From 1998-2001, she served as the chair of the Literature Department at UC San Diego. She began as a scholar of comparative literature, and her work has focused on literatures and cultures of encounter that emerge from histories of colonialism, immigration, and globalization. She is known especially for her work on French and British colonialisms and postcolonial literature, Asian immigration and Asian American studies, and comparative global humanities.

Academic Biography

Lowe studied European intellectual history at Stanford University, and French literature and critical theory at University of California, Santa Cruz, where she worked with James Clifford, Hayden White, Donna Haraway, and Fredric Jameson.

She is the recipient of awards and fellowships from the Guggenheim, Rockefeller, and Mellon Foundations, the UC Humanities Research Institute, and the American Council of Learned Societies.[3]

In 2011-2012, she was a University of California President's Faculty Research Fellow,[4] and the Visiting Fellow at the School of Advanced Study, University of London.[5] In the Fall 2012, she was the F. Ross Johnson-Connaught Distinguished Visitor at the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto.[6] In 2016-2017, she will lead a Mellon Sawyer Seminar at Tufts, "Comparative Global Humanities: Colonialisms, Violence, and Conditions for the Human."[7]

Work

She has authored and co-edited books on orientalism, immigration, and globalization. Her first book Critical Terrains: French and British Orientalisms (1991), examined the intersections of culture, class, and sexuality in French and Anglo-American literature, letters, and theory from Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and Montesquieu to Julia Kristeva and Roland Barthes.

Her second book, Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics (1996), theorized the contradictions of Asian immigration to the United States, observing that Asian immigrants have been included in the workplaces and markets of the U.S., yet through exclusion laws and bars from citizenship, are distanced from national culture and constructed as perpetual immigrants or "foreigners-within."[8] It received the 1997 Book Award in Cultural Studies from the Association for Asian American Studies, and honorable mention for the 1997 John Hope Franklin Award from the American Studies Association.[8] Immigrant Acts has been frequently cited as a central text in Asian American studies.[9]

Her third monograph, The Intimacies of Four Continents (2015), is a study of settler colonialism, transatlantic African slavery, and the East Indies and China trades in goods and people as the conditions for modern European liberalism and empire.[10] This work inspired a round table discussion at the 2015 annual meeting of the American Studies Association, where an interdisciplinary panel of scholars discussed the influence of the book on their approaches to the humanities.

In 1997, she co-edited with David Lloyd a collection of essays, The Politics of Culture in the Shadow of Capital, and co-edited with Elaine H. Kim, "New Formations, New Questions: Asian American Studies," a special issue of positions: east asia cultures critique. Since 2001, she has co-edited with Jack Halberstam, "Perverse Modernities," a book series for Duke University Press.[11]

Personal life

She is the daughter of social theorist and historian Donald M. Lowe, and sister of Lydia Lowe, director of the Chinese Progressive Association.

Selected publications

Books

Journal Articles and Book Chapters

References

  1. ↑ "Department of English: People". ase.tufts.edu. Retrieved 2015-10-26.
  2. ↑ "Tufts University: Consortium of Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora: Home". as.tufts.edu. Retrieved 2015-10-26.
  3. 1 2 "Lisa Lowe". literature.ucsd.edu. Retrieved 2015-10-26.
  4. ↑ "2011-12 UC President's Faculty Fellows in the Humanities". UC Humanities Network. Retrieved October 26, 2015.
  5. ↑ "New School Visiting Fellow: Professor Lisa Lowe | School of Advanced Study, University of London". www.sas.ac.uk. Retrieved 2015-10-26.
  6. ↑ "Munk School of Global Affairs | Event Information — The Fetishism of Colonial Commodities and the Intimacies of Four Continents". munkschool.utoronto.ca. Retrieved 2015-10-26.
  7. ↑ "Funded Sawyer Seminars | The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation". mellon.org. Retrieved 2015-10-26.
  8. 1 2 "Immigrant Acts". Duke University Press. Retrieved 21 September 2015.
  9. ↑ "Immigrant Acts - All citations - Google Scholar". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2015-09-21.
  10. ↑ "The Intimacies of Four Continents | Duke University Press". www.dukeupress.edu. Retrieved 2015-11-03.
  11. ↑ "Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe". Duke University Press. Retrieved 2015-11-03.
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