Professor Lisa Lowe, School Visiting Fellow (January to June 2012)
Professor Lisa Lowe (Department of Literature, University of California, San Diego) studied European intellectual history at Stanford, and French literature and critical theory at UC Santa Cruz. Her research and teaching interests are French, British, and U.S. literatures, and the topic of Asian migration within European and American modernities. She has published books on orientalism, immigration, and culture within globalisation. Professor Lowe was based at the School between January and June 2012 and was most closely affiliated with the Institutes for the Study of the Americas, of Historical Research and of Commonwealth Studies. She gave two lectures: 'Vanity Fair and the Fetishism of Colonial Commodities' on 15 Feb 2012 and 'The Intimacies of Four Continents' [Poster] on 15 May 2012.
