Carlos Rojas | Scholars@Duke

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.

Current Appointments & Affiliations

Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2016
Professor in Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies, Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2021

Contact Information

2204 Erwin Road Room 208, Box 90414, Durham, NC 27708-0414
Box 90414, 2204 Erwin Rd., Durham, NC 27708-0414
c.rojas@duke.edu
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Background
Education, Training, & Certifications
- Ph.D., Columbia University 2000
- B.A., Cornell University 1995
Previous Appointments & Affiliations
- Professor in Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies, Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2017 - 2020
- Associate Professor of Women Studies, Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2014 - 2017
- Associate Professor in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2011 - 2016
- Assistant Professor in the Program in Women, Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2010 - 2013
- Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2010 - 2013
- Assistant Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2009 - 2011
Recognition
In the News
- JUL 19, 2021
  
  11 Duke-Authored Books on Global Perspectives
- SEP 24, 2015
  
  Chinese Author to Speak on Literature and Censorship
Awards & Honors
- Junior Scholar Grants. Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation. 2006
Expertise
Global Scholarship
- Expertise
  - China (Country)
- Research
  - China (Country)
Research
External Relationships
- Association of Asian Studies (executive committee for East Asia Forum, PMLA advisory board, James Russell Lowell Prize committee
- PRISM: Theory and Modern Chinese Literature
Publications & Artistic Works
Selected Publications
- Books
  - Rojas, C. Preface: Imagining China. 2020, pp. xi–xv.
  - Rojas, C. Introduction: My Language is not my own: Translation, displacement, and contemporary Chinese literature. 2020, pp. 1–14. Scopus, doi:10.4324/9780367815158-1.
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  - Rojas, C., and M. H. Sung. Reading China against the grain: Imagining communities. 2020, pp. 1–237. Scopus, doi:10.4324/9780367815158.
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  - Rojas, C. A Unity of Fragments: Fruit Chan and Hong Kong Cinema (In preparation). Hong Kong University Press, 2017.
  - Rojas, C., and A. Bachner, editors. The Oxford Handbook of Modern Chinese Literatures. Oxford University Press, 2016.
  - Ng, K. C. Slow Boat to China and Other Stories. Translated by C. Rojas, Columbia University Press, 2016.
  - Jia, P. The Lantern Bearer by Jia Pingwa (In preparation). Translated by C. Rojas, CN Times Books, Inc., 2016.
  - Rojas, C., and A. Bachner, editors. The Oxford Handbook of Modern Chinese Literatures (Accepted). Oxford University Press, 2016.
  - Yan, L. Explosion Chronicles by Yan Lianke. Translated by C. Rojas, Grove/Atlantic Press, 2016.
  - Rojas, C., and R. Litzinger, editors. Ghost Protocol: Development and Displacement in Global China. Duke Univesity Press, 2016.
  - Rojas, C. Homesickness: Culture, Contagion, and National Transformation in Modern China. Harvard University Press, 2015.
  - Rojas, C. Luoguan: Zhongguo xiandaixing de fansi 裸觀：中國現代性的反思. Rye Field, 2015.
  - Yan, L. The Four Books by Yan Lianke. Translated by C. Rojas, Grove/Atlantic, 2015.
  - Yan, L. Marrow. Translated by C. Rojas, Penguin Books China, 2015.
  - Rojas, C., and Eileen Cheng-yin Chow, editors. The Oxford Handbook of Chinese Cinemas. Oxford University Press, 2013.
  - Yan, L. Lenin’s Kisses by Yan Lianke. Translated by C. Rojas, Grove/Atlantic Press, 2012.
  - Rojas, Carlos. The Great Wall: A Cultural History. Harvard University Press, 2010.
  - Rojas, C., and E. Cheng-yin Chow, editors. Rethinking Chinese Popular Culture: Cannibalizations of the Canon. Routledge, 2009.
  - Yu, H. Brothers: A Novel by Yu Hua. Translated by C. Rojas and E. Cheng-yin Chow, Pantheon, 2009.
  - Rojas, C. Introduction: The disease of canonicity. 2008, pp. 1–12.
  - Rojas, C., and E. C. Y. Chow. Rethinking chinese popular culture: Cannibalizations of the canon. 2008, pp. 1–288. Scopus, doi:10.4324/9780203886649.
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  - Rojas, Carlos. The Naked Gaze: Reflections on Chinese Modernity. Harvard University Asia Center, 2008.
  - Der-wei Wang, D., and C. Rojas, editors. Writing Taiwan: A New Literary History. Duke University Press, 2007.
- Academic Articles
  - Rojas, C. “Introduction: Ground and Background.” Prism, vol. 19, no. 1, Mar. 2022, pp. 157–66. Scopus, doi:10.1215/25783491-9645952.
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  - Rojas, C. “Contagion and Dissemination An Immunological Reading of Chang Kuei-hsing's Elephant Herd.” Sun Yat Sen Journal of Humanities, vol. 51, no. 51, July 2021, pp. 111–27.
  - Rojas, C. “Introduction: Between the universal and the particular.” Prism, vol. 18, no. 1, Mar. 2021, pp. 235–43. Scopus, doi:10.1215/25783491-8922257.
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  - Rojas, C. “2014 Nomination Statement.” Chinese Literature Today, vol. 10, no. 1, Jan. 2021, pp. 7–8. Scopus, doi:10.1080/21514399.2021.1925512.
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  - Rojas, C. “A Surplus of Fish: Language, Literature, and Cultural Ecologies in Ng Kim Chew’s Fiction.” International Journal of Taiwan Studies, vol. 4, no. 1, Jan. 2021, pp. 121–41. Scopus, doi:10.1163/24688800-20201150.
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  - Rojas, C. “Wandering the Garden, Waking from a Dream.” Chinese Literature Today, vol. 10, no. 1, Jan. 2021, pp. 25–33. Scopus, doi:10.1080/21514399.2021.1916369.
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  - Rojas, C. “Turning the Tables: Derrida, China, and the Asia Turn.” Diacritics, vol. 49, no. 1, Jan. 2021, pp. 88–105. Scopus, doi:10.1353/dia.2021.0004.
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  - Rojas, C. ““A new species” gender, sexuality, and taxonomic logics in sinophone communities.” Prism, vol. 17, no. 2, Oct. 2020, pp. 277–97. Scopus, doi:10.1215/25783491-8690396.
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  - Rojas, C. “The “turn” turn.” Diacritics, vol. 47, no. 9, Jan. 2020, pp. 4–11. Scopus, doi:10.1353/dia.2019.0031.
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  - Rojas, C. “Cai Guo-Qiang.” Diacritics, vol. 47, no. 9, Jan. 2020, pp. 130–35. Scopus, doi:10.1353/dia.2019.0037.
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  - Rojas, C. “Method as method.” Prism, vol. 16, no. 2, Oct. 2019, pp. 211–20. Scopus, doi:10.1215/25783491-7978475.
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  - Rojas, C. “Translation as method.” Prism, vol. 16, no. 2, Oct. 2019, pp. 221–35. Scopus, doi:10.1215/25783491-7978483.
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  - Rojas, C. “Of lice and men a parasitic reading of Jia Pingwa’s the lantern bearer.” Prism, vol. 16, no. 1, Mar. 2019, pp. 19–32. Scopus, doi:10.1215/25783491-7480317.
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  - Rojas, Carlos. “THE "TURN" TURN.” Diacritics a Review of Contemporary Criticism, vol. 47, no. 4, 2019, pp. 4–11.
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  - Rojas, C. ““A World Republic of Southern [Sinophone] Letters”.” Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, vol. 30, no. 1, Mar. 2018, pp. 42–62.
  - Rojas, C. “Language, ethnicity, and the politics of literary taxonomy: Ng Kim Chew and Mahua literature.” Pmla, vol. 131, no. 5, Oct. 2016, pp. 1316–27. Scopus, doi:10.1632/pmla.2016.131.5.1316.
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  - Rojas, C. “Dream of the Red Chamber Internet Fan Fiction and Literary Canonicity.” Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art, vol. 36, no. 3, May 2016, pp. 190–200.
  - Rojas, C. “Alai and the linguistic politics of internal Diaspora.” Chinese Overseas, vol. 3, Jan. 2010, pp. 115–32. Scopus, doi:10.1163/ej.9789004187658.i-234.27.
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- Book Sections
  - Rojas, C. “Intermediality-"A weird concept": Queer intermediality in Dung Kai-cheung's fiction.” Keywords in Queer Sinophone Studies, 2020, pp. 175–89.
  - Rojas, C. “Xiaolu guo’s i am China: On copulas and copulation.” Reading China against the Grain: Imagining Communities, 2020, pp. 214–31. Scopus, doi:10.4324/9780367815158-16.
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  - Rojas, C. “Authorial afterlives and apocrypha in 1990s Chinese fiction.” Rethinking Chinese Popular Culture: Cannibalizations of the Canon, 2008, pp. 262–82.
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