Ohio State University presents U.S. Ethnic and Postcolonial Studies Graduate Workshop. Featuring Professor Lisa Lowe, from the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of California, San Diego. This workshop is coordinated by Professors Lynn Itagaki and Joe Ponce. Professor Lisa Lowe’s lecture is drawn from a forthcoming book, The Intimacies of Four Continents, and addresses the fetishism of commodities, Thackeray'sVanity Fair, and the Great Exhibition of 1851.
Professor Lowe is currently a UC President's Faculty Research Fellow this year; in the fall, she will be at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard University, and in the winter and spring, at the School of Advanced Study, University of London. She is Professor of Comparative Literature at UC San Diego, and an affiliated member of the Department of Ethnic Studies and the Program in Critical Gender Studies there. She has published books and articles on orientalism, immigration, and globalization. She is the author of Critical Terrains: French and British Orientalisms, Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics, and is co-editor of The Politics of Culture in the Shadow of Capital. Aimed at a broad audience, her public lecture is drawn from a forthcoming book, The Intimacies of Four Continents, and addresses the fetishism of commodities, Thackeray's Vanity Fair, and the Great Exhibition of 1851.
