Lisa Lowe

Lisa Lowe is Samuel Knight Professor of American Studies and is an affiliate faculty in the programs in Ethnicity, Race, and Migration and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. An interdisciplinary scholar of modern histories and cultures of colonialism, immigration, and globalization, she is the author of Critical Terrains: French and British Orientalisms (Cornell University Press, 1991), Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics (Duke University Press, 1996), and The Intimacies of Four Continents (Duke University Press, 2015), and the co-editor of The Politics of Culture in the Shadow of Capital (Duke University Press, 1997) and New Questions, New Formations: Asian American Studies, a special issue of positions: east asia cultures critique 5:2 (Fall 1997). Lowe studied European intellectual history at Stanford University, and French and comparative literature at University of California, Santa Cruz. Before joining Yale, Lowe taught at the University of California, San Diego and Tufts University, where she contributed to the humanities by serving on the UC President’s Commission on the Humanities, as Chair of the Board of Governors of the systemwide UC Humanities Research Institute, and as Director of the Center for the Humanities at Tufts. At Tufts, she co-convened a Mellon Sawyer Seminar, “Comparative Global Humanities.” Her research has been supported by fellowships from the Guggenheim, Rockefeller, and Mellon Foundations, the School of Advanced Study at the University of London, the University of California President’s Office, and the American Council of Learned Societies.