Lisa LOWE - Ph.D. (UC Santa Cruz) ON LEAVE FA07-SP08 Primary Office: LIT 440 Primary Phone: (858) 534-3853 Professor of Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies. Lisa Lowe studied European intellectual history at Stanford University and French literature and critical theory at UC Santa Cruz. Her research and teaching interests include modern French, British, and American studies, and the topic of Asian migration within European and American modernities. She has published books on orientalism, immigration, and culture within globalization.

Selected Publications: Critical Terrains: French and British Orientalisms. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991. "Heterogeneity, Hybridity, Multiplicity: Marking Asian American Differences." Diaspora, 1:1 (Spring 1991):24-44. Japanese translation in Shisho: Contemporary Sociology, Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten Publishers, 1996. Republished in Contemporary Asian American Studies, Min Zhou and James V. Gatewood, eds. New York: New York University Press, 2000; in Asian American Studies: A Reader, Jean Yu-wen Shen Wu and Min Song, eds. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2000; in Literary Theory: An Anthology (2nd ed.) Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan, eds. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2003; in A Companion to Asian American Studies, Kent A. Ono, ed. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2004. "Literary Nomadics in Francophone Allegories of Postcolonialism: Pham Van Ky and Tahar Ben Jelloun," Post/Colonial Conditions: Exiles, Migrations, Nomadisms, Yale French Studies, 82 (1993): 43-61. "Des Chinoises: Orientalism, Psychoanalysis, and Feminine Writing." In Ethics, Politics, and Difference in Julia Kristeva's Writing, Kelly Oliver, ed. New York: Routledge, 1993 "Unfaithful to the Original: the Subject of Dictée." In Writing Self, Writing Nation: Selected Essays on Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's DICTEE, Elaine Kim, et al., eds. Berkeley: Third Woman Press, 1994. Republished in Gender and Colonialism, Lionel Pilkington, et al., eds. Galway, Ireland: Galway University Press, 1996. Japanese translation in Ikyo no Shintai: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha wo megutte. Yasuko Ikeuchi and Masahiko Nishi, eds. Kyoto: Jimbun Shoin, 2006. Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics. Durham: Duke University Press, 1996. New Formations, New Questions: Asian American Studies (with Elaine Kim). Special issue of positions: east asia cultures critique, 5.2 (Fall 1997). The Politics of Culture in the Shadow of Capital (with David Lloyd). Durham: Duke University Press, 1997. "The International within the National: American Studies and Asian American Critique." Cultural Critique 40 (Fall 1998): 29-47. Republished in The Futures of American Studies, Donald Pease and Robyn Weigman, eds. Durham: Duke University Press, 2003. Italian translation in I volti dell'altro. Letterature della diaspora e migranti. Paola Boi and Radhouan Ben Amara, eds. Cagliari: Editions AV, 2003. "Toward a Critical Modernity," Anglistica, 4.1 (2000): 69-89. "Epistemological Shifts: National Ontology and the New Asian Immigrant." In Orientations: Mapping Studies in the Asian Diaspora, Karen Shimakawa and Kandice Chuh, eds. Durham: Duke University Press, 2001. "Utopia and Modernity: Some Observations from the Border." Rethinking Marxism 13/2 (Spring 2001): 10-18. "Immigrant Literatures: A Modern Structure of Feeling." Literature on the Move: Comparing Diasporic Ethnicities in Europe and the Americas, Dominique Marçais, et al. eds. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Carl Winter, 2002. “Out of the West: Asian Migration and Modernity.” Foreword to Fresh Talk, Daring Gazes, Elaine Kim, Margo Machida, Sharon Mizota, eds. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. "Insufficient Difference." Ethnicities 5: 3 (2005): 409-414. "The Intimacy of Four Continents.” Haunted by Empire: Geographies of Intimacy in North American History. Ann Laura Stoler, ed. Durham: Duke, 2006. "Globalization.” Keywords in American Cultural Studies. Bruce Burgett and Glen Hendler, eds. New York: New York University, 2007.