The University of Wisconsin-Madison
VISUAL CULTURE CLUSTER
Visiting Speaker Rey Chow
Rey Chow was born in Hong Kong and educated in both British colonial and American institutions. She received her doctorate in Modern Thought and Literature from Stanford University and has taught at the University of Minnesota and at the University of California, Irvine. Currently, she is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities at Brown University. Her publications include five books in English, several edited collections, and numerous articles and essays. Her works have been widely reprinted in anthologies and translated into multiple Asian and European languages. She is on the editorial and advisory boards of over twenty journals and book series worldwide, and co-edits the series "Asia Pacific: Culture, Politics, Society" for Duke University Press. Her first book, Woman and Chinese Modernity: The Politics of Reading between West and East (1991) was given First Place Book Award by Chicago Women in Publishing; her 1995 book, Primitive Passions: Visuality, Sexuality, Ethnography, and Contemporary Chinese Cinema, was awarded the James Russell Lowell Prize by the Modern Language Association. She has also been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, ACLS and NEH grants, and other research awards. Her most recent books include Ethics After Idealism: Theory--Culture--Ethnicity--Reading (1998) and The Protestant Ethnic and the Spirit of Capitalism (2002). A collection of her essays, Il sogno di Butterfly e altre costellazioni postcoloniali, is forthcoming in Italian in early 2004. Chow's fields of specialization include contemporary critical theory, film, and modern Asian cultures and literatures.
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