Rey Chow
Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities:
Departments of Modern Culture and Media, Comparative Literature, and English
Phone: +1 401 863 2138
Phone 2: +1 401 863 2818
Rey_Chow@Brown.EDU
Rey Chow studies 20th-century Chinese fiction, both canonical and popular; postcolonial theory and fiction; interdisciplinary analyses of film; and critical and cultural theory.
Biography
Rey Chow is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities at Brown University. She is the author of many books, including _Woman and Chinese Modernity (1991); _Writing Diaspora (1993); _Primitive Passions: Visuality, Sexuality, Ethnography, and Contemporary Chinese Cinema_ (1995); _Ethics after Idealism (1998); _The Protestant Ethnic and the Spirit of Capitalism_ (2002); _The Age of the World Target: Self-Referentiality in War, Theory, and Comparative Work_ (2006); and Sentimental Fabulations, Contemporary Chinese Films_ (2007). She has edited the collection _Modern Chinese Literary and Cultural Studies in the Age of Theory: Reimagining a Field_ (2000). Her book _Primitive Passions_ received the James Russell Lowell Prize from the Modern Language Association. Her work has been widely anthologized and translated into major European and Asian languages.
Interests
Rey Chow studies 20th-century Chinese fiction, both canonical and popular; postcolonial theory and fiction; interdisciplinary analyses of film; and critical and cultural theory.
Degrees
B.A. (First Class Honours), University of Hong Kong; M.A. and Ph.D., Stanford University
Awards
Academic Awards (Selected List)
1986-87
Post-doctoral fellowship, Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women, Brown University
1988-91
McKnight-Land Grant Professorship, University of Minnesota
1992-93
John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship
1994-95
University of California Humanities Research Institute Resident Fellowship
2005-06
Research Fellowship, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University
Other Honors (Selected List)
1991
First Place Award from Chicago Women in Publishing for Woman and Chinese Modernity
1995-96
William Allan Neilson Visiting Professor, Comparative Literature Program, Smith College (one semester)
1996-97
James Russell Lowell Prize for the book, Primitive Passions, awarded by Modern Language Association (MLA)
1997
S.W. Brooks Visiting Fellowship, Department of English, University of Queensland
2002
Selected for a fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University
2004-05
Chesler-Mallow Senior Faculty Research Fellow and director of postdoctoral seminar, "The Orders of Time," Pembroke Center, Brown University
Affiliations
Editorial Activities (Selected List)
1986-2000 Advisory Board of differences, A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies (USA)
1993- Co-editor, with Masao Miyoshi and Harry Harootunian, of a book series, Asia Pacific: Culture, Politics, Society, for Duke University Press
1994- Advisory Board, NOVEL, A Forum on Fiction (USA)
1994- Editorial Advisory Board, U.S.-Japan Women's Journal (Japan and USA)
1995- National Advisory Board, SIGNS (USA)
1996- Editorial Board, Comparative Literature (USA)
1996- Editorial Board, Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies (USA)
1996- Editorial Board, Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese (Hong Kong)
1996- Advisory Board, book series in Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies (Taiwan)
1997- Advisory Board, camera obscura (USA)
1997-2001 International Editorial Committee, Communal/Plural: Journal for Transnational and Multicultural Studies (Australia and UK)
1997- Editorial Advisory Board, Postcolonial Studies (Australia and UK)
1998- Editorial Board, Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism (USA)
1998- Advisory Editorial Collective, boundary 2 (USA)
1998-2004 Advisory Board, Feminist Theory (UK)
1999- Editorial Collective, Cultural Critique (USA)
1999- Advisory Board, Polygraph: An International Journal of Culture and Politics (USA)
1999- International Advisory Board, Center for Cultural Studies, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
2000- Advisory Board, The New Centennial Review (USA)
2000- Editorial Board, differences (USA)
2001- Advisory Board for a book series, Popular Culture and Politics in Asia Pacific, University of Illinois Press
2001- Editorial Advisory Board, Connect: Art. Politics. Theory. Practice (USA)
2002- Advisory Board, Centre for Humanities Research, Lingnan University, Hong Kong
2002- International Advisory Board, Language and Intercultural Communication (UK)
2003- Advisory Board, Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies (Taiwan)
2003- Advisory Board, Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women, Brown University
2003- Advisory Board, Chungwai Literary Monthly (Taiwan)
2003- Advisory Board, Centre for Film Studies, National Chiao Tung University (Taiwan)
2003- Editorial Advisory Board, Critical Zone: A Forum on Chinese and Western Knowledge (Hong Kong and China)
2004- Editorial Collective, Traces (USA, Japan, Korea, China)
2005- International Advisory Board, Asian Film Archive, Singapore
2005- Editorial Advisory Board, Router: A Journal of Cultural Studies (Taiwan)
Teaching
Teaching areas include:
Modern Literature
Film
Cultural Theory (including Feminist Theory and Postcolonial Theory)
Asian and Chinese Literature and Culture
Funded Research
(Selected List)
1986-87
Post-doctoral fellowship, Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women, Brown University ($19,000)
1988-91
McKnight-Land Grant Professorship, University of Minnesota, ($16,500 for research plus summer salary each year for three years, 1990-91 being a year of salaried leave)
1992-93
John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship ($30,000)
1994-95
University of California Humanities Research Institute Resident Fellowship
2005-06
Research fellowship, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University ($50,000)
Curriculum Vitae
