Lisa Lowe
Lisa Lowe | |
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| Awards | Guggenheim Fellow, American Council of Learned Societies, School of Advanced Study University of London |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Stanford University, University of California, Santa Cruz |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | University of California, San Diego, Tufts University, Yale University |
| Main interests | Comparative literature, race and colonialism, transnational feminism, British Empire, Asian American studies |
| Notable works | Critical Terrains: French and British Orientalisms; Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics; The Intimacies of Four Continents |
| Website | https://americanstudies.yale.edu/people/lisa-lowe |
Lisa Lowe is Samuel Knight Professor of American Studies at Yale University, and an affiliate faculty in the programs in Ethnicity, Race, and Migration and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Prior to Yale, she taught at the University of California, San Diego, and Tufts University. She began as a scholar of French and comparative literature, and since then her work has focused on the cultural politics of colonialism, immigration, and globalization. She is known especially for scholarship on French, British, and United States colonialisms, Asian migration and Asian American studies, race and liberalism, and comparative empires.