Lisa Lowe

Lisa Lowe is Samuel Knight Professor of American Studies at Yale University, and an affiliate faculty in Ethnicity, Race, and Migration and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies. She began as a scholar of comparative literature, and her work has focused on literatures and cultures of encounter that emerge from histories of colonialism, immigration, capitalism, and globalization. She is known especially for work on French and British colonialisms and postcolonial literature, Asian immigration and Asian American studies, race and liberalism, and comparative global humanities.