English Lecture Series Talk - 3/27

As part of the English Department's Spring Lecture Series, Rey Chow will be presenting "Translator, Traitor; Translator, Mourner (or, Dreaming of Intercultural Equivalence)" on Thursday, March 27th at 5:30pm in Tuttleman 101.

Rey Chow is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities at Brown University, where she teaches in the Departments of Comparative Literature and Modern Culture and Media. She is the author of seven books, including The Protestant Ethnic and the Spirit of Capitalism (Columbia UP, 2002), The Age of the World Target: Self-Referentiality in War, Theory, and Comparative Work (Duke UP, 2006), and Sentimental Fabulations, Contemporary Chinese Films: Attachment in the Age of Global Visibility, (Columbia UP, 2007), and over seventy articles.  Her work has been widely translated and anthologized.

A pre-talk reception will take place from 4:00-5:00pm in 821 Anderson Hall.