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 and Middle Eastern Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2016
Contact Information
- 2204 Erwin Road Room 208, Box 90414, Durham, NC 27708-0414
- Box 90414, 2204 Erwin Rd., Durham, NC 27708-0414
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c.rojas@duke.edu
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C.V.
- Background
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Education, Training, & Certifications
- Ph.D., Columbia University 2000
- B.A., Cornell University 1995
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Duke Appointment History
- 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 and 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 and Middle Eastern Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2010 - 2013
- Assistant Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2009 - 2011
- Recognition
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In the News
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SEP 24, 2015
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Awards & Honors
- Expertise
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Global Scholarship
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Expertise
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Research
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- Research
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External Relationships
- Dream of the Red Chamber literary prize
- Education University of Hong Kong
- Hong Kong Grant Research Council
- Hong Kong Research Grant Council
- LA Review of Books
- National Taiwan University
- Shih-hsin University Board of Trustees
- Publications & Artistic Works
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Selected Publications
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Books
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Rojas, C. Preface: Imagining China. 2020, pp. xi–xv.
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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.Full Text
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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.Full Text
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Rojas, C. A Unity of Fragments: Fruit Chan and Hong Kong Cinema (In preparation). Hong Kong University Press, 2017.
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Rojas, Carlos, and Ralph A. Litzinger. Ghost Protocol Development and Displacement in Global China. Duke University Press Books, 2016.
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Rojas, C., and A. Bachner, editors. The Oxford Handbook of Modern Chinese Literatures. Oxford University Press, 2016.
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Ng, K. C. Slow Boat to China and Other Stories. Translated by C. Rojas, Columbia University Press, 2016.
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Jia, P. The Lantern Bearer by Jia Pingwa (In preparation). Translated by C. Rojas, CN Times Books, Inc., 2016.
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Rojas, C., and A. Bachner, editors. The Oxford Handbook of Modern Chinese Literatures (Accepted). Oxford University Press, 2016.
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Yan, L. Explosion Chronicles by Yan Lianke. Translated by C. Rojas, Grove/Atlantic Press, 2016.
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Rojas, C. Homesickness: Culture, Contagion, and National Transformation in Modern China. Harvard University Press, 2015.
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Rojas, C. Luoguan: Zhongguo xiandaixing de fansi 裸觀: 中國現代性的反思. Rye Field, 2015.
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Yan, L. The Four Books by Yan Lianke. Translated by C. Rojas, Grove/Atlantic, 2015.
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Yan, L. Marrow. Translated by C. Rojas, Penguin Books China, 2015.
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Rojas, C., and E. Cheng-yin Chow, editors. The Oxford Handbook of Chinese Cinemas. Oxford University Press, 2013.
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Yan, L. Lenin’s Kisses by Yan Lianke. Translated by C. Rojas, Grove/Atlantic Press, 2012.
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Rojas, Carlos. The Great Wall: A Cultural History. Harvard University Press, 2010.
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Rojas, C., and E. Cheng-yin Chow, editors. Rethinking Chinese Popular Culture: Cannibalizations of the Canon. Routledge, 2009.
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Yu, H. Brothers: A Novel by Yu Hua. Translated by C. Rojas and E. Cheng-yin Chow, Pantheon, 2009.
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Rojas, C. Introduction: The disease of canonicity. 2008, pp. 1–12.
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Rojas, C., and E. C. Y. Chow. Rethinking chinese popular culture: Cannibalizations of the canon. 2008, pp. 1–288. Scopus, doi:10.4324/9780203886649.Full Text
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Rojas, Carlos. The Naked Gaze: Reflections on Chinese Modernity. Harvard University Asia Center, 2008.
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Der-wei Wang, D., and C. Rojas, editors. Writing Taiwan: A New Literary History. Duke University Press, 2007.
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Academic Articles
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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.Full Text
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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.Full Text
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Rojas, Carlos. “THE "TURN" TURN.” Diacritics a Review of Contemporary Criticism, vol. 47, no. 4, 2019, pp. 4–11.Link to Item
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Rojas, Carlos. “A World Republic of Southern [Sinophone] Letters.” Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, vol. 30, no. 1, FOREIGN LANGUAGE PUBL, Mar. 2018, pp. 42–62.Link to Item
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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.Full Text
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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.Full Text
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Book Sections
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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.Full Text
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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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- Teaching & Mentoring
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Recent Courses
- AMES 336: Chinese science fiction 2021
- AMES 560S: Reading the Chinese Novel 2021
- AMES 593: Research Independent Study 2021
- AMES 233: Global Chinese Cities through Literature and Film 2020
- AMES 309: Chinese Im/migration: Chinese Migrant Labor and Immigration to the US 2020
- AMES 560S: Reading the Chinese Novel 2020
- AMES 593: Research Independent Study 2020
- AMES 790S: Special Topics in Critical Asian Humanities Methodologies 2020
- AMI 268: Chinese Im/migration: Chinese Migrant Labor and Immigration to the US 2020
- ICS 302: Global Chinese Cities through Literature and Film 2020
- RIGHTS 309: Chinese Im/migration: Chinese Migrant Labor and Immigration to the US 2020
- VMS 237: Global Chinese Cities through Literature and Film 2020
- AMES 439: Queer China 2019
- AMES 493: Research Independent Study 2019
- AMES 590: Special Topics in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies 2019
- AMES 593: Research Independent Study 2019
- AMES 738: Theories of Minority Discourse 2019
- AMI 439: Queer China 2019
- CULANTH 439: Queer China 2019
- GSF 439: Queer China 2019
- LIT 439: Queer China 2019
- VMS 439: Queer China 2019
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