Rey Chow

Rey Chow
周蕾
Born1957 (age 66–67)
EducationUniversity of Hong Kong
Stanford University
SchoolPostcolonialism, poststructuralism, cultural studies
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Irvine
Brown University
Duke University
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Rey Chow
Traditional Chinese周蕾
Simplified Chinese周蕾
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinZhōu Lěi
Yue: Cantonese
Yale RomanizationJāu Léuih
JyutpingZau1 Leoi5

Rey Chow (born 1957) is a cultural critic, specializing in 20th-century Chinese fiction and film and postcolonial theory. Educated in Hong Kong and the United States, she has taught at several major American universities, including Brown University. Chow is currently Anne Firor Scott Professor of Literature in Trinity College of Arts and Sciences at Duke University.[2]

Chow's writing challenges assumptions in many different scholarly conversations including those about literature, film, visual media, sexuality and gender, ethnicity, and cross-cultural politics. Inspired by the critical traditions of poststructuralism, postcolonialism, and cultural studies, Chow explores the problematic assumptions about non-Western cultures and ethnic minorities within the context of academic discourse as well as in more public discourses about ethnic and cultural identity. Her critical explorations in visualism, the ethnic subject and cultural translation have been cited by Paul Bowman as being particular influential.[1]

  1. ^ a b Bowman, The Rey Chow Reader, x.
  2. ^ "People / Literature / Rey Chow". Duke University. Retrieved 25 April 2011.