Lisa Lowe

Lisa Lowe
Photo by Madeline Lear (2015)
Awards	Guggenheim Fellow, American Council of Learned Societies Fellow, School of Advanced Study University of London
Website	ase.tufts.edu/chat
Academic background
Alma mater	University of California, Santa Cruz, Stanford University
Academic work
Institutions	University of California, San Diego, Tufts University, Yale University
Main interests	Comparative literature, Asian American studies, race and colonialism, transnational feminism, British empire
Notable works	Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics, The Intimacies of Four Continents

Lisa Lowe is Distinguished Professor of English and Humanities, a faculty member of the Consortium of Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora, and Director of the Center for the Humanities at Tufts University. Prior to joining Tufts in 2012, she taught at Yale University and at the University of California, San Diego. From 1998 to 2001, she served as the chair of the Literature Department at UC San Diego. She began as a scholar of comparative literature, and her work has focused on literatures and cultures of encounter that emerge from histories of colonialism, immigration, and globalization. She is known especially for her work on French and British colonialisms and postcolonial literature, Asian immigration and Asian American studies, and comparative global humanities.

Lowe studied European intellectual history at Stanford University, and French literature and critical theory at University of California, Santa Cruz, where she worked with James Clifford, Hayden White, Donna Haraway, and Fredric Jameson.

She is the recipient of awards and fellowships from the Guggenheim, Rockefeller, and Mellon Foundations, the UC Humanities Research Institute, and the American Council of Learned Societies.

In 2011–12, she was a University of California President's Faculty Research Fellow, and the Visiting Fellow at the School of Advanced Study, University of London. In the Fall 2012, she was the F. Ross Johnson-Connaught Distinguished Visitor at the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto. In 2016-2017, she leads a Mellon Sawyer Seminar at Tufts, "Comparative Global Humanities."