Carlos Rojas, Associate Professor of Chinese Cultural Studies, Women's Studies, and Arts of the Moving Image

Carlos Rojas is Associate Professor of Chinese Cultural Studies, Women’s Studies, and Arts of the Moving Image, and his research focuses on issues of gender and visuality, corporeality and infection, and nationalism and diaspora studies. He is the author of The Naked Gaze: Reflections on Chinese Modernity (Harvard University Asia Center, 2008), and The Great Wall: A Cultural History (Harvard University Press, 2010), and is completing a book manuscript “The Sick Man of Asia: Diagnosing the Chinese Body Politic” (under advance contract with Harvard University Press), which looks at Chinese discourses of corporeality and infection over the long twentieth century. He the co-editor, with David Der-wei Wang, of Writing Taiwan: A New Literary History (Duke University Press, 2007), and, with Eileen Cheng-yin Chow, of both Rethinking Chinese Popular Culture: Cannibalizations of the Canon (Routledge: 2009) and the forthcoming the Oxford Handbook of Chinese Cinemas (Oxford University Press, 2013). He is also the guest editor of a special issue on “Discourses of Disease,” of Modern Chinese Literature and Culture (Spring, 2011). Finally, he is the co-translator, again with Eileen Chow, of Yu Hua’s two-volume novel, Brothers (Pantheon, 2009) (the translation was short-listed for the Man Asia Prize), and is the translator of Yan Lianke’s novel Shouhuo: The Livening of Lenin (Grove/Atlantic Press, 2012). He teaches on a variety of topics ranging from prostitutes and vampires to cities, migration, and disease.

Contact Info:

Office Location:	208 Franklin Center
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Office Hours:

Wed. 3:00-5:00

Education:

PhD	Columbia University	2000
BA	Cornell University	1995

Specialties:

Chinese

Curriculum Vitae

Representative Publications

1. Carlos Rojas and Eileen Chow, Oxford Handbook of Chinese Cinemas (2013), Oxford University Press
2. Yan Lianke (Carlos Rojas, trans.), Shouhuo: The Livening of Lenin (2012), Grove/Atlantic Press
3. Carlos Rojas, Discourses of Disease, special issue of Modern Chinese Literature and Culture (Spring, 2011)
4. Carlos Rojas, The Great Wall: A Cultural History (2010), Harvard University Press
5. Carlos Rojas and Eileen Cheng-yin Chow, Rethinking Chinese Popular Culture: Cannibalizations of the Canon (2009), Routledge
6. Yu Hua (Eileen Cheng-yin Chow and Carlos Rojas, trans.), Brothers: A Novel (2009), Pantheon (Translation short-listed for the 2008 Man Asian Literary Prize.)
7. Carlos Rojas, The Naked Gaze: Reflections on Chinese Modernity (2008), Harvard University Asia Center
8. David Der-wei Wang and Carlos Rojas, Writing Taiwan: A New Literary History (2007), Duke University Press