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Lisa Lowe is a professor of English and American Studies at Tufts University and a noted scholar in the fields of comparative literature, American studies, Asian American studies and the cultural politics of colonialism and migration. Prior to joining Tufts in 2012, she taught in the Literature Department at UC San Diego for over two decades. She is the recipient of awards and fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundations, the UC Humanities Research Institute, and the American Council of Learned Societies. In 2007-2008, she was Visiting Professor of American Studies at Yale University; in 2011-2012, she was a University of California President's Faculty Research Fellow and 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.
Lowe studied European intellectual history at Stanford University, and French literature and critical theory at UC Santa Cruz. She has authored books on orientalism, immigration and globalization. Her current project, The Intimacies of Four Continents, is a study of the conjunction of Asian indentured labor, native-descendant peoples, and African slavery as the conditions for liberal economy, knowledge, and politics. She coedits with Judith Halberstam, "Perverse Modernities," a book series with Duke University Press.
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