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An interactive workshop with literary and cultural theorist, Rey Chow (Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Professor in the Humanities, Duke University).

Rey Chow is one of the most prominent intellectuals working in the interdisciplinary critical humanities today. Her 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. Chow is the author of over a dozen books, including The Age of the World Target: Self-Referentiality in War, Theory, and Comparative Work (2006), which we will discuss in this workshop. In her most recent work, Chow has been 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. Please email rtsrinivasan@email.arizona.edu for readings in advance of the workshop.