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Rey Chow

Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Professor in the Humanities
Literature
Box 90670, Durham, NC 27708-0670
101 Friedl Building, Durham, NC 27708

Overview


Chow's research comprises theoretical, interdisciplinary, and textual analyses. Since her years as a graduate student at Stanford University, she has specialized in the making of cultural forms such as literature and film (with particular attention to East Asia, Western Europe, and North America), and in the discursive encounters among modernity, sexuality, postcoloniality, and ethnicity. Her book PRIMITIVE PASSIONS was awarded the James Russell Lowell Prize by the Modern Language Association. Before coming to Duke, she was Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities at Brown University, where she held appointments in the Departments of Comparative Literature, English, and Modern Culture and Media. In her current work, Chow is concerned with the legacies of poststructuralist theory (in particular the work of Michel Foucault), the politics of language as a postcolonial phenomenon, and the shifting paradigms for knowledge and lived experience in the age of visual technologies and digitial media.

Please contact Professor Chow for most recent CV at rey.chow@duke.edu

Current Appointments & Affiliations


Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Professor in the Humanities · 2020 - Present Literature, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Professor of Literature · 2010 - Present Literature, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Professor in the Program of Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies · 2021 - Present Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences

Education, Training & Certifications


Stanford University · 1986 Ph.D.
Stanford University · 1982 M.A.
University of Hong Kong (China) · 1979 B.A.