CONNELLY LECTURE

REY CHOW
ANNE FIROR SCOTT PROFESSOR OF LITERATURE

DUKE UNIVERSITY

Foucault, Race, and Racism

Thursday,
October 13th
8:00 p.m.
JRC 101
Refreshments will be served.

Rey Chow, Anne Firor Scott Professor of Literature at Duke University: Chow's
research comprises theoretical, interdisciplinary, and textual analyses. Since her
years as a graduate student at Stanford University, she has specialized in the
making of cultural forms such as literature and film (with particular attention to
East Asia, Western Europe, and North America), and in the discursive encounters
among modernity, sexuality, postcoloniality, and ethnicity. Her book PRIMITIVE
PASSIONS was awarded the James Russell Lowell Prize by the Modern Language
Association. Before coming to Duke, she was Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the
Humanities at Brown University, where she held appointments in the Departments
of Comparative Literature, English, and Modern Culture and Media. In her current
work, Chow is concerned with the legacies of poststructuralist theory (in particular
the work of Michel Foucault), the politics of language as a postcolonial
phenomenon, and the shifting paradigms for knowledge and lived experience in
the age of visual technologies and digital media.
JRC 101 is equipped with an induction hearing loop system, which enables
individuals with hearing aids set 10T-Coil to hear the program.