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Carlos Rojas, Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

Carlos Rojas
Office Location:  2204 Erwin Road Room 208, Box 90414, Durham, NC 27708-0414
Email Address:  send me a message
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)
Teaching (Fall 2024):

  • 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. 3:00-5:00.
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.  Harvard University Press, 2015.
  2. Carlos Rojas and Eileen Chow. Oxford Handbook of Chinese Cinemas.  edited by Rojas, C; Chow, E Oxford University Press, 2013.
  3. Rojas, C. "Discourses of Disease." Modern Chinese Literature and Culture :23.1 (Spring, 2011).  [abs]
  4. Rojas, C. The Great Wall: A Cultural History.  Harvard University Press, 2010.
  5. Carlos Rojas and Eileen Cheng-yin Chow. Rethinking Chinese Popular Culture: Cannibalizations of the Canon.  edited by Rojas, C; Cheng-yin Chow, E Routledge, 2009.
  6. Rojas, C. The Naked Gaze: Reflections on Chinese Modernity.  Harvard University Asia Center, 2008.
  7. David Der-wei Wang and Carlos Rojas. Writing Taiwan: A New Literary History.  edited by Der-wei Wang, D; Rojas, C Duke University Press, 2007.

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