Lisa Lowe

Lisa Lowe is professor of Comparative Literature at UC San Diego and an affiliated faculty member in the Ethnic Studies Department and the program in Critical Gender Studies. She is the author of Critical Terrains: French and British Orientalisms (Cornell, 1991), Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics (Duke UP, 1996), and a coedited volume The Politics of Culture in the Shadow of Capital (Duke UP, 1997) and a forthcoming book, Metaphors of Globalization. Her current project, The Intimacies of Four Continents, is a study of the convergence of colonial slavery and indentured labor in the Americas as the conditions for modern liberal notions of freedom.