Carlos Rojas, Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

Carlos Rojas

Carlos Rojas is Professor of Chinese Cultural Studies; Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist 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.

Office Location:  2204 Erwin Road Room 208, Box 90414, Durham, NC 27708-0414
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Web Page:  https://duke.box.com/s/jegsxew946vtxa61glm94uv8po3cew63

Teaching (Spring 2024):

Teaching (Fall 2024):

Office Hours:

Wed. 2-4pm
Education:

Ph.D.Columbia University2000
B.A.Cornell University1995
Specialties:

Chinese
Research Interests:

Current projects: Ghost Protocol: Development and Displacement in Global China (Duke University Press, 2015), co-editor with Ralph Litzinger, The Oxford Handbook of Modern Chinese Literatures (Oxford University Press, 2015), co-editor with Andrea Bachner, Ng Kim Chew, From Island to Island: Dari Pulau Ke Pulau, translator (Columbia University Press, 2015)

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.

Representative Publications

  1. Carlos Rojas, Homesickness: Culture, Contagion, and National Reform in Modern China (2015), Harvard University Press
  2. Yan Lianke (Carlos Rojas, trans.), The Four Books (2015), Grove/Atlantic
  3. Carlos Rojas and Eileen Chow, Oxford Handbook of Chinese Cinemas, edited by Rojas, C; Chow, E (2013), Oxford University Press
  4. Yan Lianke (Carlos Rojas, trans.), Lenin's Kisses (2012), Grove/Atlantic Press
  5. Rojas, C, Discourses of Disease, edited by Rojas, C, Modern Chinese Literature and Culture no. 23.1 (Spring, 2011)  [abs]
  6. Rojas, C, The Great Wall: A Cultural History (2010), Harvard University Press
  7. Carlos Rojas and Eileen Cheng-yin Chow, Rethinking Chinese Popular Culture: Cannibalizations of the Canon, edited by Rojas, C; Cheng-yin Chow, E (2009), Routledge
  8. 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.)
  9. Rojas, C, The Naked Gaze: Reflections on Chinese Modernity (2008), Harvard University Asia Center
  10. David Der-wei Wang and Carlos Rojas, Writing Taiwan: A New Literary History, edited by Der-wei Wang, D; Rojas, C (2007), Duke University Press