Carlos Rojas, Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

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.

Contact Info:

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

Teaching (Spring 2024):

• AMES 336.01, CHINESE SCIENCE FICTION Synopsis

  Bivins 109, MW 01:25 PM-02:40 PM

• AMES 590.01, SPECIAL TOPICS Synopsis

  West Duke 108B, W 04:40 PM-07:10 PM

  (also cross-listed as CULANTH 590.02)

• AMES 195S.01, GTWY: RETHINKING ASIA AND ME Synopsis

  Friedl Bdg 126, MW 01:25 PM-02:40 PM

  (also cross-listed as CULANTH 195S.01)

• AMES 790S.01, TOPICS IN ASIAN HUMANITIES Synopsis

  Bivins 109, MW 03:05 PM-04:20 PM

Office Hours:

Wed. 2-4pm

Education:

Ph.D.	Columbia University	2000
B.A.	Cornell University	1995

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.

Curriculum Vitae

Representative Publications   (More 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